[OpenAFS-devel] pinstall breaks fakeroot when compiling openafs for Nokia tablets

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:07:55 -0700


Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:

> "pinstall" doesn't just clobber LD_PRELOAD and FAKEROOTKEY, it discards
> *every* environment variable with majestic indifference whenever it does
> execve to invoke /bin/cp and /bin/strip (or variations which depend on
> the *target* OS being selected.)

I'm fairly sure that when fakeroot is working properly, it overrides
execve to pass the environment variables it needs regardless.

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