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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:20:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux compatability
Message-ID:  <20021228121434.B18514-100000@atlas.home>
In-Reply-To: <20021228144050.H965@sorrow.ashke.com>

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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> 	I'm noticing some odd behaviour with the linux compatability
> recently.  I have this small gnome app called gnome-run.  It links against
> a number of gnome libraries that I've copied from my linux partition over
> to /compat/linux and put in the appropriate directories.
>
> 	The problem is, when executing this app, the linker seems to try
> and load the libaudiofile.so.0 file from my FreeBSD installation instead
> of my /compat/linux installation.  When running gnome-run it only does
> this for that one library (though other apps have shown this to be a
> problem with other libraries such as libgmodule-2.0.so.0,
> libglib-2.0.so.0, and libgobject-2.0.so.0)
>
> 	This is what happens when I try to launch "gnome-run" from an
> xterm:
>
> [ adamk@sorrow ~ ]$ gnome-run
> gnome-run: error while loading shared libraries:
> /usr/local/lib/libaudiofile.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>
> 	Well, of course the OS ABI is invalid.  The libaudiofile library
> it's trying to load is for FreeBSD, not Linux.  But, if I move the
> libaudiofile.so.0 file from /usr/local/lib to /usr/local/lib/old, and
> try to launch gnome-run, everything works fine.  So, if the FreeBSD
> version of the library isn't present, it then looks for the Linux version.
>
> 	Any ideas what's going on or how to fix this?

Run "/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig".  That should update the path cache
of the (linux) dynamic linker.  I assume the permissions on the libs
already are reasonable.

   $.02,
   /Mikko


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