* Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) [021206 13:35]: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:12:35AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > try > > > > ldd -v /path/to/executable > > > > To see what it's looking for and where. Then you can use > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to override its search path with a righteous one. > > Hey, that is one neat command. Very useful to know that! > > OK. The original error has been solved. Somehow I'd got a symlink to > the woody libstdc++ but without the actual so being there - this on a > slink system. > > OK, phoenix has obviously been compiled against newer libs than slink, > which is not really surprising, but it's been linked dynamic instead > of static, so its portability has been compromised. So I've given it a > directory tree with the relevant woody libs in it, and it can now find > them, but I still get an error: > > libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _dl_initial_searchlist > > I'm guessing that this is because phoenix is trying to use the slink > dynamic loader (_dl ?), which in turn can't see the results of the chroot > ldconfig I did in the phoenix directory tree. Indeed, ldd -v reveals > that it is looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.2, with a full pathname, so > LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't gonna touch that. > > The obvious solution is to recompile from source, but the source isn't > there, the phoenix download page only has the binary - WHAAT?? > I suppose I could expand my 'mini-woody' tree to contain X and all the > networking stuff, and simply chroot into it to run phoenix. But with > all that in it, it wouldn't be very 'mini' anymore. > > Is there a more powerful hack than LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Is there a sort of > 'partial chroot' that can preserve access to specified directories > outside the chrooted-into tree? Is there a URL from which I can > download the phoenix source? execute your ld-linux.so.2 directly. Something like /path/to/your/chroot/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /path/to/your/executable (combined with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack, so that the ld-linux that you execute looks for libraries in the directory you specify instead of /usr.) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.debian.org/
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