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| author | ison <ison@airmail.cc> | 2020-10-11 06:23:49 -0600 |
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| committer | Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> | 2020-10-12 15:22:48 +0200 |
| commit | 3f4febd80b14d0ef85667372f51b393c2dbe322f (patch) | |
| tree | 4b2ae194b1ada51e86c6f84926caf771f6feadf5 | |
| parent | d7b56982b6fb645bb98c9659c388b2103baa59b7 (diff) | |
nongnu: steam: Add ldconfig comment.
* nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm: Add comment explaining why ldconfig must be
re-enabled in glibc.
| -rw-r--r-- | nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm b/nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm index 1b5a059..51bed53 100644 --- a/nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm +++ b/nongnu/packages/steam-client.scm @@ -94,6 +94,24 @@ (description ngc-description (default #f)) (license ngc-license (default #f))) +;;; We must re-enable ldconfig in glibc for Steam to prefer our system libraries +;;; over Steam's runtime (which has incompatible Mesa and gcc). This is because +;;; the Steam script located at +;;; Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh +;;; overrides $LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the following order enforced: + +;;; * "Pinned" libraries (pinned_libs_{32,64} directories containing symlinks) +;;; * Output from `/sbin/ldconfig -XNv` +;;; * steam-runtime paths +;;; * Existing $LD_LIBRARY_PATH + +;;; Without ldconfig Steam's runtime will have priority over system libraries as +;;; well as any paths supplied to Steam in the initial $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. +;;; "Pinned" library directories are created after installation, so we can't +;;; use those either. + +;;; Disabling Steam's runtime is another solution, however that will add over +;;; 80 additional dependencies (see commit: @a12f42e6) (define glibc-for-fhs (package (inherit glibc) |