[vbox-dev] Loading external libraries in 2.0.4

[James Lucas]

Putting the path into /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig seems to 
work. Would still be interested in why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't work anymore.

- James

James Lucas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded one of my development boxes from VirtualBox 1.6.6 to 
> 2.0.4. I use a custom external VRDP authentication library to 
> authenticate connections (/usr/lib64/) which inturns relies on an extra 
> library (/usr/local/xmlrpc-c/lib).
>
> This worked perfectly for 1.6.6 however it has broken in 2.0.4 because 
> it cannot load the library in /usr/local/xmlrpc-c/lib (cannot find 
> file). This path is exported in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for both root and vmuser 
> users (vmuser starts the VM). If I install the xmlrpc-c libraries into 
> /usr/lib then everything works fine.
> Running ldd against both shared libraries returns successfully for both 
> users.
>
> I have a feeling that this is due to the hardening features added in 
> 2.0, I do not understand them enough to really know if that is the issue 
> (not much is written in the SDK or User Manual on this). Does anyone 
> know how I could fix this issue.
>
> - James
>
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