can I set LD_PRELOAD in jaunty?

[sktsee]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 00:28 +0000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: 
> Bill Marcum <marcumbill at bellsouth.net> writes:
> 
> >On 2009-06-26, Cameron Hutchison <lists at xdna.net> wrote:
> >><mr.lequoctuan at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>I try to add this line to .profile "export LD_PRELOAD=..."
> >>
> >> When you log in with X11, you are not running a login shell anywhere, so
> >> ..profile will not be run. This means none of your settings in .profile
> >> will get loaded in an X11 session. When you start a X11 terminal, it
> >> will not run a login shell, so .bashrc will be loaded, not .profile.
> >>
> >I think in gnome-terminal preferences you can choose whether or not the
> >terminal runs as a login shell.
> 
> I'm sure it can. I know xterm can do it. However, that may not be
> sufficient for the original poster. For instance, gnome-terminal itself
> will not run with the LD_PRELOAD setting, nor will any other apps
> launched via the GNOME menu.
> 

Easily remedied by creating a wrapper script for your program containing
LD_PRELOAD and setting the menu launcher to execute it. I do this to
load a library to change fsync calls to noop's for the Liferea version
that's included with jaunty.

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