Debian Bug report logs - #794559
ld.so(8) LD_LIBRARY_PATH also treats ';' as a seperator

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan David Amery <jdamery@ysolde.ucam.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ld.so(8) LD_LIBRARY_PATH also treats ';' as a seperator

Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:05:47 +0100

Package: manpages
Version: 3.44-1
Severity: normal

The documentation for LD_LIBRARY_PATH notes that the list is colon-seperated;
however ld.so also treats ';' as a seperator (possibly for compatability 
reasons).

The manpage should note this otherwise the results of trying to have a library
path that includes a ';' as part of a directory name are very confusing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Message #10 received at 794559@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

To: Jonathan David Amery <jdamery@ysolde.ucam.org>, 794559@bugs.debian.org

Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#794559: ld.so(8) LD_LIBRARY_PATH also treats ';' as a seperator

Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:59:50 +0200

tags 794559 fixed-upstream
thanks

On 08/04/2015 02:05 PM, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> Package: manpages
> Version: 3.44-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The documentation for LD_LIBRARY_PATH notes that the list is colon-seperated;
> however ld.so also treats ';' as a seperator (possibly for compatability 
> reasons).
> 
> The manpage should note this otherwise the results of trying to have a library
> path that includes a ';' as part of a directory name are very confusing.

Thanks Jonathan. I confirm your point, and I've applied the patch below.

Cheers,

Michael

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 700628c..1c643c7 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -228,8 +228,9 @@ when they are first referenced.
 This is useful when using a debugger.
 .TP
 .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for
+A list of directories in which to search for
 ELF libraries at execution-time.
+The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons.
 Similar to the
 .B PATH
 environment variable.


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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Message #17 received at 794559-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>

To: 794559-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ld.so.8 is fixed now

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:08:21 +0100

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Version: 4.04-1

Hi,

this bug has been fixed in Debian, thanks for reporting.

Regards,
Tobias

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