[cad-linux] Re: ME10

In a message dated 7/17/2002 9:20:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> On Wednesday 17 July 2002 21:01, you wrote:
> > ldd compares except for the #'s in parentheses in 4 of 6 cases Is that
> > significant? 
> 
> could be, we have some people on the list that are better at the lib stuff 
> then me.  i'm hoping they will jump in.
> 
I'll give it a try:  Quoting form "Using Caldera Open Linux" published by 
Que, copyright 1999, page 349 "When a program is created, the linker records 
the versions of the shared libraries that it requires in the program file.  
You can examine which shared libraries an executable program needs by using 
the ldd command."  

If I read this right then the ldd command only tells you which libraries are 
necessary, not which libraries are available on your system.  Did you get any 
messages when you ran RPM (you should have if a library was missing).  Second 
thing I would check is that each of the libraries exist, and make sure the 
symlinks are all correct and pointing to valid library files.  Actually - in 
the giving credit where credit is due category: Keith is the one who has 
given me the most helpful explanations about symlinks.  
  
The numbers in parenthesis look a lot like hexadecimal numbers, and if I had 
to make a guess they point to a memory location somewhere.  I don't know if 
they are significant or not, I could not find a reference explaining what 
they are or do.  

Hope this helps.

Andy

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