From kfm-devel  Thu Dec 20 10:12:35 2001
From: Manuel Arriaga <m.arriaga () ip ! pt>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:12:35 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Old suggestion for a different trash can
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=100884348903037

Hi Waldo,

On Thursday 20 December 2001 00:14, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:40 pm, Manuel Arriaga wrote:
>>
> > I never experienced any problems, except with the apps in the procps
> > package (and only another user described this problem). Can you give me
> > any hints as to what might go wrong when LD_PRELOAD is set?
>
> The application that gets loaded might be incompatible with the library
> that gets loaded. This happens when the application uses a different C-lib
> or a different executable format for example. (Do you remember a.out?)
>
> So you will get bugreports like "my proprietary xyz application for
> calculating mass-density of collapsing starts doesn't work under KDE"
> because this application still uses libc0.67 or something equally obscure.

I see... :-( 

And there really isn't a good work-around for that sort of problem, right?

Good-bye then,

Manuel