Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:16:44PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
Sorry for CC'ing, not sure you are subscribed to debian-user, and I'm
taking this off debian-devel. (As suggested.)
> > I have compiled a program here that is looking for X libraries in
> > /usr/lib...
>
> On a Red Hat system by any chance?
I made a mistake, these binaries were actually not compiled by me. (I
compiled a lot of stuff lately, I got a little confused ;) So maybe it
was *compiled* on RedHat. It still shouldn't have hardcoded paths,
though, should it?
> > I don't want to make symlinks for all of these, that's just plain ugly.
> > What else can I do, put them in ld.so.preload or something?
>
> It sounds like you compiled it with a -rpath option. Check if "objdump
> --all-headers spice3" has an "RPATH" setting in it. If it does, try to
> compile without it. If that's not feasible, edit the binary and make the
> first byte of the RPATH data into an ASCII NUL.
Did not find any "RPATH" in objdump's output.
Thanks,
Hugo van der Merwe
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