On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:25:46PM +0930, Adam Smith probably wrote: > On Wed > > > $ readelf -d /usr/local/bin/pdftex |grep NEEDED > > > > 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpng.so.5] > > 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libz.so.2] > > 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.2] > > 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.4] > > Gah! There are quite a few. Still, some of these I'll already have so > it's still a case of installing libraries one by one :( > > Do you (or anyone!) know exactly how to go about installing some of these > Linux libraries? I mean, I can't just go and download libgmodule-2.0.so.0 > and install it, can I? If so, how, or where do I need to go to get them?
Downloading and installing the libraries is required, but I can't tell
for sure if that's sufficient.
> I guess I was kind of thinking, and I hate to use the analagy, of DLLs.
> Being able to go and find one of these libraries, install it into my Linux
> compat/lib directory and then run the application.
Try it. It may require brandelf'ing those libraries. I once tried linux
emulation, but shortly after I found everything I needed was also ported
to FreeBSD to run natively, so I stopped using it.
> 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libmanylibshere]
One other concern is that you may need to readelf the newly downloaded
libraries too, as they may reference other libraries not in your list
yet.
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DoubleF
Too much of everything is just enough.
-- Bob Wier
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