Hi Simon, > I transferred my new library and executable in the usual way, and this > is what I found; the debugger will execute local copies of an .so > file, but otherwise it is locked out by security.
Shared libraries are looked for in defined places by the dynamic linker/loader. > To get the .so to work, I needed to transfer it to the system 'lib' > folder, using sudo nautilus. That's one of the places it looks in, but you shouldn't really pollute it. ld.so(8) defines other ways to run an executable with shared libraries in odd places. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
