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I wanted to run Heavy Metal FAKK 2 under Arch Linux, but sadly, it segfaulted. Appearantly it does so with any zlib younger than 1.1.4. To solve this I've used an ugly hack I saw somewhere on the web, and installed zlib 1.1.4 in /usr/local/games/oldlibs. The result is loki-compatibility, which really just is a package with zlib 1.1.4 in /usr/local/games/oldlibs and a profile.d script that pretty much says:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/games/oldlibs
This seems to work!
Just wanted to see how "pretty" this solution would be considered to be. You can check the PKGBUILD out here. Any spontaneous thoughts?
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You don't want an old zlib library linked in by default for other binaries. Zlib is a quite important lib. Installing this old leaky version on your system would mean every service that uses it will be vulnerable.
I would suggest making wrapper scripts for these loki games, not adding a LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the global profile.d directory.
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Thanks for the reply, I was suspecting as much. :oops:
How is the old zlib "leaky"?
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Security vulnerabilities are found in zlib now and then. Since it is a very common used library, it's dangerous to have old old versions of this lib on your system in a default library path. Every application that uses zlib is vulnerable for the bugs in it.
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How about ln -s the newer zlib to the old file name.
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