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LD_ASSUME_KERNEL problem

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: GNU libc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:38:42 +0200
Subject: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL problem

The usual "hack" to switch between i686 and non-i686 libpthreads on a
x86 system is to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL and setting it to some old
version, e.g. 2.2.5.

But if you put such libraries on a 64-bit system with i686 support
that has also a 64-bit glibc e.g AMD64 or ia64, the environment
variable will have effect on both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries and you
cannot execute anymore 64-bit code :-(

So, what can we do?  We need a better way IMO to switch libraries to
not affect all installed glibcs.  Any good ideas?

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj

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