On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Brian S. Julin wrote: > It may be that my ld.so does not seem to support ELF LD_PRELOAD > anymore. The manpage calls it an "a.out" ld.so and only mentions > LD_AOUT_PRELOAD. I take this to mean that ELF binaries no longer > need ld.so, but how do I get my libXpm.so.4.6 to load and override > the definitions in the other so's?
Nevermind. It just didn't register that the script posted earlier was for csh so I wasn't exporting the shell variables. Another problem is that if you are running libc.5.4 you need to go get yourself a copy of libc.so.5.2.18 and load that. Get Debian's, using RedHat's binary kills network support. Now at least I can run the mail reader. I'm not loading Xpm 4.6 right now because I don't know how to load more than one library (do I have to link them both into the same library or will a colon-separated list be accepted in LD_PRELOAD? How do I know if I succeed? What's the meaning of life?). What dies if I use libXpm 4.7 -- I haven't noticed anything crashing yet. The only thing I haven't gotten working yet is SMTP transfer of outbound mail. It says the host refuses connection for some reason. I don't use java (hate coffee in fact) but I fired up Collabra and it is doing quite well. One bummer is that there is currently no planned support for NetScape Conference under Linux and BSDI, only the commercial UNIX get it. -- Brian S. Julin
