Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Cannot load /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so
> > into server: ld.so.1: httpd: fatal: relocation error: file
> > /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so: symbol
> > deflateInit2_: referenced symbol not found
>
> What is the output of:
> $ ldd /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so
% ldd /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
%
> $ elfdump -d /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so |\
> grep RPATH
% elfdump -d /export/home/trawick/apacheinst/modules/mod_deflate.so | grep RPATH
%
>
> > I would guess that the problem is that mod_deflate.so wasn't
> > statically linked with this libz.a, but I HAVEN'T TRIED IT YET.
> > Perhaps Solaris ld discarded the libz stuff because it wasn't used by
> > httpd.
>
> Solaris 8 has /usr/lib/libz.so and it has deflateInit2_:
> $ nm /usr/lib/libz.so | grep deflateInit
> [212] | 11328| 668|FUNC |GLOB |0 |9 |deflateInit2_
> [203] | 11280| 48|FUNC |GLOB |0 |9 |deflateInit_
>
> > (I hit the same problem on AIX but [erroneously] guessed at the time
> > that only AIX would need libz.a statically linked with mod_deflate.so
> > instead of statically linked with httpd.)
> >
> > How do other folks deal with this? Always use a shared object libz?
> > Statically linking it with mod_deflate.so seems less error-prone
> > (assuming the build is correct), particularly if you want to run a
> > build on multiple machines.
>
> Not all systems allow you to link a static library into a shared one
> (HP-UX for example). If httpd doesn't link in libz, you'll have to
> either include the source to libz and make it a libtool convenience
> library that gets linked to mod_deflate or link the "system" libz as a
> shared library.
Can you clarify what you mean by linking the "system" libz as a shared
library? How is this done since Solaris doesn't seem to provide
libz.a? (I assume you're talking about /usr/lib/libz.so.)
Thanks a bunch!
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