[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit v2 2/3] NOT WORKING: vddk: Drive library loading from libdir parameter.

I couldn't get this to work in the end. This is the latest non-working version. This email documents what doesn't work for the permanent record. The central problem is that VDDK InitEx() appears to dlopen() various of its own plugins. Although I wasn't able to capture exactly what dlopen() command it is running, the plugins cannot be loaded because they rely on the recompiled system libraries (libcrypto.so.X etc) and it cannot find those because $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set. Setting $LD_LIBRARY_PATH using setenv around the call to InitEx() does not work because glibc only consults $LD_LIBRARY_PATH when the program starts up. Various workarounds have been suggested for this but none of them are pleasant (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6713692/problems-with-using-setenv-an...). So currently we must have nbdkit start up with $LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, in other words how it works at the moment. Rich.