Re: Error when prelinking firefox
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:19:57PM +0100, jjluza wrote:
> Hello people,
> I try to prelink mozilla firefox.
> I succeed in prelink openoffice.org but I don't want to prelink other
> binaries.
> I run "prelink -vmR /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin" but I get the
> following error :
> /usr/sbin/prelink.bin: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: Could not find
> one of the dependencies
>
> Now I wonder how to find which this dependencie is, and how to solve this
> problem.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
Hi!
firefox has its own set of libraries which are not in the default
search path. Libraries are only searched for in each of the paths
in /etc/ld.so.conf, and anything in the environment variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (provided that the given executable is not setuid/setgid).
Firefox' libraries reside in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and various other
places, and the shell script /usr/bin/firefox (which you call to start
firefox) adds all those library paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH before executing
the "real" executable, firefox-bin.
So if you want to prelink the binary, you'll have to mention all those
directories, too, or prelink won't find them. Have a look at /usr/bin/firefox
to get the whole list, it's quite easy to find.
HTH,
Jan
PS: Ah, by the way: You can check the dynamic library dependencies of
an executable with the tool "ldd".
--
Jan C. Nordholz
<jckn At gmx net>
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