Re: libc5 policy decision

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen) writes:

> I can link gnuplot statically with
> the old allocator

Actually that isn't necessary.  Once a new libc5 comes out with the
special liboldmalloc.so in it, you just need to use a wrapper to call
gs.  Like this:

#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=liboldmalloc.so \
gnuplot.real "$@"

And move the real gnuplot to gnuplot.real.  The netscape installer
should do this.


Guy

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