JFYI - this might affect us, too, at least for debugging or testing.
If there was an announcement anywhere else, I missed it. I read this just by
accident on [opensuse]:
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [opensuse] Checkinstall dropped from Opensuse [Was: Compiling the
Suse way]
Date: Friday 06 June 2008 01:31
From: "Carlos E. R."
This method uses configure > make > checkinstall (instead of make install).
Checkinstall has been dropped from openSUSE because it doesn't work anymore. Checkinstall's trick is to load a library via LD_PRELOAD that redirects all functions dealing with files. Now for installing a package you need to be root and for programs running with root privileges the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ dynamic loader ignores LD_PRELOAD as this would otherwise be a huge ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ security problem.
So checkinstall has become useless and was therefore dropped.
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Stefan Hundhammer