Shared Libraries

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 13:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Don Flinn wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to FC5 and a program that ran under FC4 has trouble
> > running under FC5.  The error message is:
> > 
> > [flinn at flinn bin]$ ./CmapTools
> > awk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > /bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > /home/flinn/IHMC_CmapTools/bin/../jre/bin/java: error while loading
> > shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No
> > such file or directory
> > 
> > The libraries exist as links in /lib.  What do I have to do to make
> > these libraries visible to the program?  I also tried to install another
> > product and got the same error.  Both programs are targeted at Linux.
> 
> According to the messages above it seems that "awk", "dirname", "grep"
> and other standard commands are reporting problems.  From that, I would
> deduce that "./CmapTools" is a script.  If you can run those commands
> outside of the script...then there is nothing wrong with those
> commands....but something in the script, probably an environment
> variable changing the way things are working.

And the environment variable is probably LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. See the "FC5
breaks Accelrys InsightII" thread from earlier today.

LinuxThreads support, as used by some old software, was deprecated in
FC4 and is no longer available in FC5.

Paul.