[cad-linux] Re: ME10

 First I want to thank you all for helping out. 
        All libraries listed by ldd were found exactly where they should have 
been, 
and were identical versions except for the numbers in parenthases, so it 
seems that no simlinks are needed. I installed the RPM with the package 
manager. (Elx uses the Red Hat Package Manager) Install went off without 
errors. One would assume that any dependancies were met. Any other ideas?

Ernie

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote:
> 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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