On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Steve Dobson wrote: > The make files use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to pick up the libraries that have just been built. > However, as I run `debuild -rsudo', the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is of course ignored as the > building is being performed as root (why? -- isn't this a bug?), and the execution of For security reasons. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an one-step root compromise if a user can set it and then run a suid root binary... Therefore ld.so ignores it when root, and only links to libraries configured as trusted (i.e. in directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf). > Is there a standard way of getting around this method in debuild? I don't know if there is an standard method, but have you tried building the package as non-root under fakeroot? Maybe that'll do the trick. > Should I raise a bug against devscripts as compiling of libraries and commands > shouldn't be done as root? Well, I also loathe building things as root, and fakeroot has been doing the trick for me for a while. Try it before filing the bug, because one would have to code a lot of stuff to get around the need to build .debs as a normal user (i.e.: non-root and not under fakeroot) AFAIK. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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