Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile & crash on Solaris

[Jim Segrave]

On Fri 03 Jan 2003 (07:59 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:56:45AM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote
> > On Fri 03 Jan 2003 (00:56 +0100), Holger wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ./bin/gnubg 
> > > GNU Backgammon 0.12  Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Gary Wong.
> > > GNU Backgammon is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
> > > version 2, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
> > > under certain conditions.  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > > There is absolutely no warranty for GNU Backgammon.  Type "show warranty"
> > > for
> > > details.
> > > ld.so.1: ./bin/gnubg: fatal: relocation error: file ./bin/gnubg: symbol
> > > xmlCatalogResolve: referenced symbol not found
> > > Killed
> > 
> > It looks like you have an odd/too-old version of libxml.
> 
> It looks like an error message from the runtime dynamic library
> resolver.
> 
> Does Solaris actually link the gnubg executable without having resolved
> all external references?
> 
> Holger, did you compile it on the same machine as you're running it
> from?

Since Holger is not root on this machine, and can't (I assume) install
libraries in /usr/local/lib (or /opt/local/lib or wherever), there is
a possibility that it's built to use a libxml of Holger's but at run
time is using a system libxml which is older or less complete.

ldd of gnubg may point to where it's going for libxml. You might need
to set LDPATH or run ldconfig if my speculation above is correct.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden