Re: LD_PRELOAD of ffm

[norvierk muohio edu]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Roman Martonak wrote:
> 
> > Concerning the trick of compiling ffm as a shared library and using
> > LD_PRELOAD, as mentioned again recently on this group, could somebody
> > provide some hints how to compile ffm as a shared library ?
> 
> The easy way is to pick up my diffs from any Debian mirror (ftp.debian.org
> is the easiest).  I packaged up libffm for Debian and added a shared
> target to the makefile in my diffs.
> 
> To find them, go into the /debian/dists/frozen/main/source/libs directory
> and it should be in there as a diff.gz.

A more comprehensive  way to make up for Red Hat's staggering lack of packages
is to use alien (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ and there should be an
rpm) to convert/ install binary debs to other package formats.

Randall