Just for reference… What is the limoncelli rule? -- cwebber
From: Andrew Hume <and...@research.att.com<mailto:and...@research.att.com>> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:06:24 -0700 To: Andrew Hume <and...@research.att.com<mailto:and...@research.att.com>> Cc: tech Discussions <t...@lopsa.org<mailto:t...@lopsa.org>> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] how screwed am i? i applied the limoncelli rule to enhance my googling and think i know the answer, namely these prod servers were installed with runtime versions, and not development versions. On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Andrew Hume wrote: the situation: we were told the production servers would run RHEL 5.4. we therefore built devt servers with RHEL 5.4; confirmed by looking at /etc/redhat-release. regrettable, the prod servers werebuilt as RHEL 5.5 (confirmed by /etc/redhat-release). the symptom: i figured i am using fairly vanilla C and compiling afresh on the prod servers anyway so how could i go wrong? well, some package i am using uses ./configure to look at stuff and failed at testing for -luuid. the library was there (/lib64/libuuid.so.1) but ld couldn't find it. same library setup on the 5.4 system but gcc could find it. grrrrrrr. in a fit of pique, i did a ln -s /lib64/libuuid.so.1 /lib64/libuuid.so and that fixed teh problem on the 5.5 system. what teh hell is going on? anyone seen this before? there are no other /lib64/lib*.so and damned if i am going to make other symlinks. andrew ------------------ Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 623-551-2845 and...@research.att.com<mailto:and...@research.att.com> (Work) +1 none currently AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org<mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ ------------------ Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 623-551-2845 and...@research.att.com<mailto:and...@research.att.com> (Work) +1 none currently AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org<mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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