Re: XForms: problems using v0.89 on Linux with glibc2.0

T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 21:02:01 -0700 (PDT)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :

I think you downloaded the libc5 version of xforms.
You need the glibc version (it should be on the
server now).

--- Jan Menzel <jan.menzel@gmx.de> wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Jan Menzel
> <jan.menzel@gmx.de> :
>
> Hello all,
> after using v0.88.1 without problems, i tried upgrading to v0.89 to
> use
> the new object helpers. Within the older build (Jun 99) i found
> object helpers
> missing so i enjoyed hearing, that v0.89 was finally finish. After
> waiting some
> more time for the Linux version to be updated i found, that i can't
> get the final
> build now available for Linux with libc5 to work. I had to stick with
> the libc5
> version because i'm using RedHat 5.2 which uses glibc2.0 and xforms
> v0.89 is not
> available for Linux linked against glibc2.0. I also tried the libc5
> version on
> RedHat 6.0 (glibc2.1) without success (btw: v0.89 linked against
> glibc2.1 works).
> Her is the problem in details:
> 1. i installed libforms.so.0.89 in /usr/local/lib
> jan@Nummer1:/home/jan > ls -l /usr/local/lib/libforms.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jan jan 31 Oct 2 12:47
> /usr/local/lib/libforms.so -> /usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.89*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jan jan 829592 Oct 2 12:47
> /usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.89*
> 2. after compiling the demo, i tried running it without success:
> problem:
> jan@Nummer1:/home/jan/tmp/xforms/DEMOS > ldd demo
> libforms.so.0.89 => not found
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40004000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400a7000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400c1000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> 3. why is libforms not found? There it is:
> jan@Nummer1:/home/jan/tmp/xforms/DEMOS > /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep
> libforms.so.0.89
> libforms.so.0.89 (ELF-libc5) =>
> /usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.89
> 4. why is it not used?
> jan@Nummer1:/usr/local/lib > ldd libforms.so.0.89
> libc.so.5 => not found
> 5. is libc.so.5 missing?
> jan@Nummer1:/usr/local/lib > /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep libc.so.5
> libc.so.5 (ELF-libc5) => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5
> 6. is libc.so.5 unreadable or can't it be executed?
> jan@Nummer1:/usr/local/lib > ll /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 2 13:25
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.3.12*
> jan@Nummer1:/usr/local/lib > ll
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 699832 Nov 5 1998
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12*
> 7. what is the problem?
>
> The above was taken on a RedHat-Linux 5.2 box. The linker version is:
> jan@Nummer1:/usr/local/lib > rpm -qa | grep ld
> ld.so-1.9.5-8
> ldconfig-1.9.5-8
>
>
> Would anybody be so kind, dropping me a note on how to fix that?
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers Jan
>
>
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> Jan Menzel | http://nummer1.saw.rwth-aachen.de
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