Wow!!
That was an hell of an example. Thanks a lot.
The path was already set by me inside the ld.so.conf. I had to add another
level(lib/) and now it is up and running!!!!
Thanks again folks
Sajjad
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 26.02.2012 um 00:19 schrieb Sajjad:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > i ran the suggested diagnostics and found the following result:
> >
> >
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> > sajjad@sajjad:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/lyx
> > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff853ff000)
> > libenchant.so.1 => /usr/lib/libenchant.so.1 (0x00007fd3d926b000)
> > libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fd3d9067000)
> > libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fd3d8da2000)
> > libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fd3d8b8a000)
> > libQtGui.so.4 => not found
> > libQtCore.so.4 => not found
> > libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fd3d887d000)
> > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fd3d85f8000)
> > libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fd3d83e0000)
> > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd3d806e000)
> > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd3d7e52000)
> > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd3d7c4e000)
> > libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fd3d7a25000)
> > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd3d9476000)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >
> >
> > It shows that the qt library is not found. As you have seen in the
> previous post, the output of the ./configure shows that the qt library is
> found. While configuring i did mention the full qt path.
>
> Yes. That's exactly the situation: While configuring you told the compiler
> where to find your own Qt-Libraries.
> Your problem is now: you don't tell the runtime-linker where you've put
> the Qt-Libraries on your machine when running lyx.
> You have to decide how to solve that. You may
> 1. add the directory /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0/lib to your system
> library path
> You have to become root and add the mentioned path to the file
> /etc/ld.so.conf and run the command ldconfig
> 2. add the directory /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0/lib to your user
> library path
> You have to add the mentioned directory to the value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> on user login.
> 3. add the directory /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0/lib to your lyx call.
> You have to create a shell script and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH there and run
> lyx from this script.
> --- example ---
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> exec /path/to/lyx "$@"
> --- end of example ---
>
> Check the man pages for details or google for the explanations for shared
> library runtime link operation.
>
> Stephan
>
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On 02/25/2012 08:48 AM, Sajjad wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I am using an old machine and repository support went out. I recently
> updated the qt version to 4.8.0 from source.
> >>
> >> While configuring the lyx source i am providing wiith the qt path and
> it did not complain at all:
> >>
> > This is just a matter of finding the headers. It doesn't have anything
> to do with which libraries the system is trying to load when LyX requests
> them. Try, as Stephan suggested:
> > > ldd /path/to/lyx
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >>
> >> sajjad@sajjad:~/Downloads/LyX/lyx-2.0.0$ ./configure
> --with-qt4-dir='/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0/'
> >> configuring LyX version 2.0.0
> >> checking for build type... release
> >> checking for version suffix...
> >> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> checking what packaging should be used... posix
> >> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> no
> >> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> >> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> >> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> >> checking for gawk... gawk
> >> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> >> checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3.4... python
> >> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> >> checking for python version... 2.5
> >> checking for python platform... linux2
> >> checking for python script directory...
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> >> checking for python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> >> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> >> checking for gcc... gcc
> >> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> >> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> >> checking for suffix of executables...
> >> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> >> checking for suffix of object files... o
> >> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> >> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> >> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> >> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> >> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> >> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> >> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> >> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> >> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> >> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> >> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> >> checking for string.h... yes
> >> checking for memory.h... yes
> >> checking for strings.h... yes
> >> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> >> checking for stdint.h... yes
> >> checking for unistd.h... yes
> >> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
> >> checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... qt4
> >> checking for a good enough C++ compiler... g++
> >> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> >> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> >> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
> >> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
> >> checking for gcc... gcc
> >> checking whether we are using the GNU Objective C compiler... no
> >> checking whether gcc accepts -g... no
> >> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> >> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> >> checking for extra library directory... NONE
> >> checking for extra include directory... NONE
> >> checking for extra lib+include directory... NONE
> >> checking for main in -lshlwapi... no
> >> checking for main in -lpsapi... no
> >> checking for main in -lgdi32... no
> >> checking whether to use included boost library... yes
> >> checking whether to use included MyThes library... yes
> >> checking size of wchar_t... 4
> >> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> >> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> >> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> >> checking for iconv... yes
> >> checking for iconv declaration... install-shextern size_t iconv
> (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t
> *outbytesleft);
> >> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> >> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> >> checking for zlib.h... yes
> >> checking for gzopen in -lz... yes
> >> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> >> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> >> checking for QT4_CORE... yes
> >> checking for QT4_FRONTEND... yes
> >> checking for moc-qt4... no
> >> checking for moc... /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0///bin/moc
> >> checking for uic-qt4... no
> >> checking for uic... /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0///bin/uic
> >> checking for rcc-qt4... no
> >> checking for rcc... /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.0///bin/rcc
> >> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> >> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> >> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> >> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> >> checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
> >> checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2 or newer... yes
> >> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> >> checking for simple visibility declarations... yes
> >> checking for inline... inline
> >> checking for size_t... yes
> >> checking for stdint.h... yes
> >> checking for working alloca.h... yes
> >> checking for alloca... yes
> >> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for sys/param.h... yes
> >> checking for getpagesize... yes
> >> checking for working mmap... yes
> >> checking whether integer division by zero raises SIGFPE... yes
> >> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> >> checking for unsigned long long int... yes
> >> checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking whether the inttypes.h PRIxNN macros are broken... no
> >> checking whether imported symbols can be declared weak... yes
> >> checking pthread.h usability... yes
> >> checking pthread.h presence... yes
> >> checking for pthread.h... yes
> >> checking for pthread_kill in -lpthread... yes
> >> checking for pthread_rwlock_t... yes
> >> checking for multithread API to use... posix
> >> checking argz.h usability... yes
> >> checking argz.h presence... yes
> >> checking for argz.h... yes
> >> checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking limits.h usability... yes
> >> checking limits.h presence... yes
> >> checking for limits.h... yes
> >> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for sys/param.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for getcwd... yes
> >> checking for getegid... yes
> >> checking for geteuid... yes
> >> checking for getgid... yes
> >> checking for getuid... yes
> >> checking for mempcpy... yes
> >> checking for munmap... yes
> >> checking for stpcpy... yes
> >> checking for strcasecmp... yes
> >> checking for strdup... yes
> >> checking for strtoul... yes
> >> checking for tsearch... yes
> >> checking for argz_count... yes
> >> checking for argz_stringify... yes
> >> checking for argz_next... yes
> >> checking for __fsetlocking... yes
> >> checking whether feof_unlocked is declared... yes
> >> checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared... no
> >> checking for iconv... (cached) yes
> >> checking for iconv declaration... (cached) install-shextern size_t
> iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf,
> size_t *outbytesleft);
> >> checking for NL_LOCALE_NAME macro... yes
> >> checking for bison... bison
> >> checking version of bison... 2.3, ok
> >> checking for long long int... yes
> >> checking for long double... yes
> >> checking for wchar_t... yes
> >> checking for wint_t... yes
> >> checking for intmax_t... yes
> >> checking whether printf() supports POSIX/XSI format strings... yes
> >> checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... yes
> >> checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for SIZE_MAX... yes
> >> checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
> >> checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
> >> checking for ptrdiff_t... yes
> >> checking stddef.h usability... yes
> >> checking stddef.h presence... yes
> >> checking for stddef.h... yes
> >> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking for asprintf... yes
> >> checking for fwprintf... yes
> >> checking for putenv... yes
> >> checking for setenv... yes
> >> checking for setlocale... yes
> >> checking for snprintf... yes
> >> checking for wcslen... yes
> >> checking whether _snprintf is declared... no
> >> checking whether _snwprintf is declared... no
> >> checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes
> >> checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
> >> checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
> >> checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... (cached) no
> >> checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... (cached) no
> >> checking whether included gettext is requested... no
> >> checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
> >> checking whether to use NLS... yes
> >> checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
> >> checking whether sys/types.h defines makedev... yes
> >> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> >> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> >> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> >> checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking sys/select.h usability... yes
> >> checking sys/select.h presence... yes
> >> checking for sys/select.h... yes
> >> checking locale.h usability... yes
> >> checking locale.h presence... yes
> >> checking for locale.h... yes
> >> checking utime.h usability... yes
> >> checking utime.h presence... yes
> >> checking for utime.h... yes
> >> checking sys/utime.h usability... no
> >> checking sys/utime.h presence... no
> >> checking for sys/utime.h... no
> >> checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
> >> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> >> checking for mode_t... yes
> >> checking for off_t... yes
> >> checking for pid_t... yes
> >> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> >> checking for size_t... (cached) yes
> >> checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
> >> checking whether PATH_MAX is defined by header limits.h... yes
> >> checking for chmod... yes
> >> checking for close... yes
> >> checking for _close... no
> >> checking for fork... yes
> >> checking for getpid... yes
> >> checking for _getpid... no
> >> checking for lstat... yes
> >> checking for mkfifo... yes
> >> checking for open... yes
> >> checking for _open... no
> >> checking for pclose... yes
> >> checking for _pclose... no
> >> checking for popen... yes
> >> checking for _popen... no
> >> checking for readlink... yes
> >> checking for strerror... yes
> >> checking for mkdir... yes
> >> checking for _mkdir... no
> >> checking whether mkdir takes one argument... no
> >> checking for sys/select.h... (cached) yes
> >> checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
> >> checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
> >> checking for sys/socket.h... yes
> >> checking types of arguments for select... int,fd_set *,struct timeval *
> >> checking aspell.h usability... no
> >> checking aspell.h presence... no
> >> checking for aspell.h... no
> >> checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... no
> >> checking whether to use aspell... no
> >> checking for ENCHANT... yes
> >> checking whether to use enchant... yes
> >> checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no
> >> checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no
> >> checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no
> >> checking whether to use hunspell... no
> >> checking for fcntl... yes
> >> checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
> >> checking for library containing socket... none required
> >> configure: creating ./config.status
> >> config.status: creating Makefile
> >> config.status: creating lyx.1
> >> config.status: creating boost/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating config/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating development/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating development/MacOSX/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating development/MacOSX/Info.plist
> >> config.status: creating development/MacOSX/lyxrc.dist
> >> config.status: creating development/MacOSX/spotlight/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating development/cygwin/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating development/cygwin/lyxrc.dist
> >> config.status: creating development/lyx.spec
> >> config.status: creating intl/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating lib/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating lib/doc/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx_version.py
> >> config.status: creating lib/lyx2lyx/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating m4/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
> >> config.status: creating sourcedoc/Doxyfile
> >> config.status: creating sourcedoc/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/client/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/client/lyxclient.1
> >> config.status: creating src/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/tex2lyx/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/tex2lyx/tex2lyx.1
> >> config.status: creating src/support/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/frontends/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating src/frontends/qt4/Makefile
> >> config.status: creating config.h
> >> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> >> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> >> config.status: executing po-directories commands
> >> config.status: creating po/POTFILES
> >> config.status: creating po/Makefile
> >>
> >> Configuration
> >> Host type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> Special build flags: build=release use-enchant
> >> C Compiler: gcc
> >> C Compiler LyX flags:
> >> C Compiler flags: -O2
> >> C++ Compiler: g++ (4.3.2)
> >> C++ Compiler LyX flags:
> >> C++ Compiler flags: -O2
> >> Linker flags:
> >> Linker user flags:
> >> Qt 4 Frontend:
> >> Qt 4 version: 4.8.0
> >> Packaging: posix
> >> LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
> >> LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx
> >>
> >> Configuration of LyX was successful.
> >> Type 'make' to compile the program,
> >> and then 'make install' to install it.
> >> sajjad@sajjad:~/Downloads/LyX/lyx-2.0.0$
> >>
> >>
> >>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >>
> >> I did make and make install and then i edited the ld.so.conf file and
> entered the following path :
> >>
> >>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >> /usr/local/share/lyx
> >>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >>
> >>
> >> What else did i miss in the process and i would really appreciate your
> suggestion to get it functional.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Sajjad
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Am 25.02.2012 um 05:57 schrieb Sajjad:
> >>
> >> > I compiled both qt and lyx from source. The installation instructions
> for qt did not mention anything about this issue and it is working fine.
> >> >
> >> > Is there any way to send the parameter while configuring lyx so that
> the compilation is done against the 32 -bit instead ?
> >>
> >> Why did you compile Qt form source? Didn't you have it already
> installed?
> >> I think it's better to use the system Qt and install the missing
> developer package if needed.
> >> You have to be sure to provide the correct version of Qt at runtime if
> you want to use your own package.
> >> To verify that you may use "ldd /path/to/lyx" to check what
> Qt-libraries are linked at run time.
> >> Perhaps you have to adjust your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable accordingly.
> >>
> >> Stephan
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I am using the 64-bit ubuntu.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >> > On 02/24/2012 09:51 AM, Sajjad wrote:
> >> > > hello forum,
> >> > >
> >> > > I just managed to compile LyX from source and it compiled fine. The
> qt
> >> > > path is mentioned while configuring and configuring.
> >> > >
> >> > > Now when i try to run "lyx" or "lyxclient" i get the following
> error:
> >> > >
> >> > > /////////////////////////////////////
> >> > > sajjad@sajjad:~$ lyxclient: error while loading shared libraries:
> >> > > libQtGui.so.4: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
> >> > > ////////////////////////////////////
> >> > >
> >> > It looks like LyX has been compiled as a 64 bit app, but what's being
> >> > found are 32 bit libraries. I'm afraid I don't know why this would be.
> >> > But maybe that's a clue?
> >> >
> >> > Richard
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
