I did figure out what I did wrong - this was a consequence of not deleting
source directories after chapter 5. I had to rebuild GCC to fix the error
and ended up reformatting and rebuilding due to other errors.

And I was using tar xvf - I had deleted the /tools directory. My statement
that I was in Chpt. 6 was erroneous.

On Sep 1, 2016 3:27 PM, "Ken Moffat" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 08:14:32PM -0700, The Portaller wrote:
> > I'm in Chapter 6, and every time I attempt to bunzip2 anything, I get the
> > error 'bzip2: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory'. I've tried making a
> > symlink from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 to /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0, but it still
> > gave me the error. I tried removing all the bzip2 files from /usr/bin,
> > /bin, /lib, and /usr/lib and reinstalling, but it doesn't seem to be
> > helping. No deviations from the book, host is Slackware 14.2 x86_64 MATE
> > Live. Book version 7.10 RC1.
>
> From experience, "No deviations from the book" means "I don't think
> I did anything different", so we treat it with a (big) pinch of
> salt.
>
> I don't have a completed /tools handy (I always delete it after
> booting), but in the bzip2 page we copy *all* the solibs to /lib.
> And then we symlink /usr/lib/libbz2.so to the versioned libbz2.so.1
> in /lib - so after that the versioned variants in /usr/lib should
> link to /usr/lib/libbz2.so, and from there through the .so.1 in /lib
> to (I assume) /lib/libbz2.so.
>
> Use 'file' on all your libbz2.so* files in /lib and /usr/lib and you
> should be able to see where the linkage trail breaks in your case.
> Then compare your command history to what the book says.
>
> It's interesting that you noticed this - most people use tar -xf on
> a .bz2 tarball (or -xvf) and in that case the version of bunzip2
> from /tools would be used where /usr/bin/bunzip2 is broken.
>
> ĸen
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