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runshell: Unset LD_PRELOAD

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Preloaded libraries from the host system may not get along with the bundled
linker.

This was observed by users in termux:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/libtermux-exec.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class:
ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Bad system call

But it could also affect more usual systems; the preloaded library might rely
on symbols from the host libc that are not available or have the wrong versions
in the bundled libc. Unsetting LD_PRELOAD entirely seems safest.
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Joey Hess 2018-04-25 13:40:48 -04:00
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@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ git-annex (6.20180410) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Fix build with yesod 1.6.
* Clean up some build warnings with newer versions of ghc and haskell
libraries.
* runshell: Unset LD_PRELOAD since preloaded libraries from the host
system may not get along with the bundled linker.
-- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:03:28 -0400

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@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ export ORIG_LOCPATH
LOCPATH="$base/locales"
export LOCPATH
# LD_PRELOAD may interact badly with the bundled libc and other libraries,
# which may have a different subarchitecture than the preloaded library.
unset LD_PRELOAD
# Generate locale definition files for the locales in use,
# using the localedef and locale files from the bundle.
# Currently only utf-8 locales are handled.