On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:25:02AM -0700, Mike Delaney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:41:54AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I'm starting to upgrade my clients. The HP-UX boxes (10.20) went flawlessly. > > > > But I'm having a few issues with my first Solaris 8 machine. Now in the > > interest of full disclosure, these machines are "supported" by a 3rd party > > OEM, and the machine I use for a build machine was recently "rebuilt" by > > them to address a kernel memory leak issue, so odds are good what I'm > > seeing is a result of their meddling, but I could use some help figuring > > this out. > > > [snip] > > > > My first amcheck failed. I tried to run amandad by hand, and found that the > > dynamic linker was failing to find libgcc_s.so.1. I looked in .cshrc and > > .profile, and found that they had broken LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I fixed this, > > restarted inetd, and was able to run an amcheck. So far so good. > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is at best a kludge. Needing to use it is always a sign > that something's broken. (Having a 537 character PATH generally is, as > well.) > > > But, the next backups from this machine failed, and when I look in the > > debug file, I find this: > > > > ld.so.1: /opt/amanda/libexec/noop: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No > > such file or directory > > > > I'm a bit confused by what sets up the search path for shared libraries > > under Solaris 8, when they are invoked as services like Amanda does. Is > > there a way to give the binaries a hard coded search path? > > Yes, pass the -R/path/to/library flag to the linker at build time. For > Solaris systems, every -L given to the linker should have a corresponding > -R. libgcc_s.so.1 is a bit of a special case, since gcc is implicitly > linking that one in when needed. Figure out where it lives and pass > the appropriate -R option via LDFLAGS when building. > OK, should I manual add this to te Makefiles? Or is there a way to tell configure this? Perhaps an environment variable?
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