[ft-devel] SIP and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Re: FontVal 2.2 plan and the enums)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Sat, 16/9/17, suzuki toshiya <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
 
> > <quote>
> > Note: Apple announced they will
> stop LD*/DYLD* overrides to stop people hacking their system
> binaries with custom library overrides.
 
> OMG! OMG! Although I don't update my
> MacOS systems recently, but hearing such news makes me
> prepared about unexpected change.
> Thank you for bringing such important
> news.

It is called SIP - "system integrity protection" - and apparently active from 
EL Capitan onwards.

If you google "sip mac os x ld_library_path", you would get piles of issues of 
people filed for software breaking on mac os x because LD_LIBRARY_PATH and 
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH are ignored.

It has been a problem for about two years now, since El Capitan was released on 
September 30, 2015 . You can see people started filing such issues at various 
bug trackers in Oct 2015 onwards, from the above google search.