This looks very promising wrt fossology. :-)

I tried building a (virtual) fossology system last week to reproduce the error 
but, I had issues with my VM host.  I think rando may have some real hardware 
where we can try the fix on fossology.  

Thanks Ralph!

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Siemsen [mailto:ral...@netwinder.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 9:06 AM
> To: Christian Grothoff
> Cc: Laser, Mary
> Subject: Re: Bug#531864: libextractor and rpath
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I think we've solved the problem with help of "ndurner" on #gnunet.
> The problem is in parsing of the /proc/%u/maps file.
> 
> I've reported this in your bug tracker
> https://ng.gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=1544
> 
> Regards,
> -Ralph
> 
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:48:13AM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > Hi Ralph & Mary,
> > 
> > I just wanted to say that if you do need my help, I'm typically on 
> > freenode IRC (#gnunet)  and my AIM handle is "grothoffaim". 
>  I may not 
> > answer immediately (often AFK).
> > 
> > Happy hacking!
> > 
> > Christian
> > 
> > On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:15:24 pm Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> > > Hello Christian,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the explanation of how libtdl loading is 
> supposed to work.
> > > It seems every week, there is a new way of doing things.  I know 
> > > about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the /etc/ld.so.conf* stuff.
> > > 
> > > I am not a Fossolgy developer, so I don't know what they 
> are doing 
> > > that might interefere with libtdl.  I can grep the source 
> code, if 
> > > there are any particular things I should look for.  I can 
> also run 
> > > the tools under strace and/or ltrace, if that helps.
> > > 
> > > I encountered problems with libextractor finding its 
> plugins, on Fedora.
> > > The Debian bug report appears to show the same symptoms 
> that I encoutered.
> > > The patch that Fedora applied seems to fix the issue, 
> although it is 
> > > certainly a hack.
> > > 
> > > I would like to get to the bottom of the mystery, would you be 
> > > willing to help understand why things are failing?
> > > 
> > > If you are on IRC, we can chat there - I'm "rfs" on the #freenode 
> > > channel on irc.oftc.net.
> > > 
> > > Many thanks,
> > > -Ralph
> > > 
> 
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