[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#531522: mpicc segfaults when called by fakeroot

[Jeff Squyres]

On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Clint Adams wrote:

> > Is there a run-time way to tell if we're running under fakeroot?   
> We can certainly just disable the malloc init hook if it detects  
> that its under fakeroot.
>
> You can use an undocumented API feature to detect/disable fakeroot
> temporarily (see the bottom of this message:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;att=0;bug=224030
>
> ) or you can look for environmental variables being set.
>
> Fixing the root cause is probably preferable, though I don't have
> much time to look at it myself.
>

Agreed; fixing the root problem is a better bet.

Manuel -- can you ping the fakeroot people?  It would be preferable to  
the method described in that URL.

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems