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Subject: Re: The mystery of the missing library.
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To: David Naylor <dbn@freebsd.org>,
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On 7/28/15 11:46 AM, David Naylor wrote:
> Why would the shared library be found when using a relative path but not 
> when using an absolute path?  Is this a bug in FreeBSD? 

What is the output for readelf?

readelf -d `which pypy`|grep -i libr

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Bryan Drewery