glibc breaks googleearth?

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:23 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 21:06 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:29 +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 16:26 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > > > Anyone have any luck running googleearth on F8? It hangs at random
> > > > points and never gets past the server login attempt.
> > > 
> > > Randomly hanging (well, not so random, see strace :) with both fglrx and
> > > intel hardware. A good explanation is "proprietary pile of crap" ;)
> > > 
> > 
> > Not disagreeing! Intel and nvidia for me.
> > 
> 
> Anyone got any idea when it last worked? like test1,2,3??
> 
> I'm between blaming glibc and libX11/xcb/xtrans/ICE...
> 
> I've just built some of those X.org library bits on my F7 machine though
> and LD_LIBRARY_PATHed them in and it works fine..
> 

Okay I've installed the latest glibc from F7 updates (in a separate
directory on my F8 box, and ran

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/home/airlied/test/lib /home/airlied/test/lib//ld-2.6.so ./googleearth-bin

and it appears to start and work.. so what changed in glibc that annoys
it?

Dave.