Re: Unable to clone GIT project

From: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2012, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP30j15=gz9w-ZU+b5Jm+fM1PmYgFrwBwAFxzAcPRsWgNcByOw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120917202124.GC24888@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> If I had to guess, I'd say it was ssh, the library is installed in a
> non-standard place (e.g., because he built them as a regular user and
> put them in his home directory), and LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not get set
> properly by ssh for the incoming ssh session.

This would be my guess as well. If LD_LIBRARY_PATH is being relied upon though, a more stable solution would be to rebuild git with "-Wl,-rpath /path/containing/libiconv" in the LD_OPTIONS environment. That would remove the need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. Any other libraries linked in non-standard locations should also have a similar option if the path to the library differs.

HTH.

Thanks -Ben

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