retitle 294655 Please include obvious implementation details in documentation
tag 294655 patch
thanks
My request would be satisfied if each of the 4 fakeroot manpages
included an ENVIRONMENT section which included both LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and LD_PRELOAD. That section should say something such as:
ENVIRONMENT
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_PRELOAD
Fakeroot is implemented by wrapping system calls. This is
accomplished by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/fakeroot and
LD_PRELOAD=libfakeroot.so.0. That library is loaded before the
system's C library, and so most of the library functions are
intercepted by it.
If you need to set either LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD from
within a fakeroot environment, it should be set relative to the
given paths, as in LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/foo/bar/.
Justin
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