Problems creating a Kerberos test (sw_gethostbyname?)

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Wed Feb 15 00:54:29 GMT 2006


Andrew,

 > While samba.org is the spiritual home of LD_PRELOAD hacks, I'm really
 > hoping to avoid having to do that portably across all our build farm
 > machines...

indeed. I love LD_PRELOAD for quick hacks, but it isn't even portable
across Linux platforms (try it on ppc64 with 32 bit userland for
example), and is most definately not portable to enough platforms for
our build farm.

LD_PRELOAD is used when you can't modify the source. We can modify the
source (as we have heimdal in-tree) so LD_PRELOAD is not needed.

Cheers, Tridge


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