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Bug 591684

Summary: www-client/firefox-bin should no longer "unset LD_PRELOAD"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Kevin Bryan <TenToThe8th>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kevin Bryan 2016-08-19 13:04:23 UTC
The firefox-bin package creates /usr/bin/firefox-bin with a line that says "unset LD_PRELOAD".  This apparently was apparently from a "fix" for mozilla-launcher trying to force libaoss (see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229227).  Since neither mozilla-launcher nor libaoss are in the tree any more, I think this could be dropped.

It should also probably prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of replacing it.
Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2016-08-22 03:10:48 UTC
(In reply to Kevin Bryan from comment #0)
> The firefox-bin package creates /usr/bin/firefox-bin with a line that says
> "unset LD_PRELOAD".  This apparently was apparently from a "fix" for
> mozilla-launcher trying to force libaoss (see:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229227).  Since neither
> mozilla-launcher nor libaoss are in the tree any more, I think this could be
> dropped.
> 
> It should also probably prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of replacing it.

Well you are correct the LD_PRELOAD could be drop'd. I am not interested in supporting firefox-bin with system libraries, that is the whole reasoning behind replacing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of prepending it.
Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2017-08-26 17:55:57 UTC
If you feel I have closed your bug and it is still a current issue, please reopen and update it completely. We will not work bugs that have no ebuild in tree any longer or can not be reproduced with a current system.

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