[cad-linux] Re: ME10

i should have checked what my links were pointing to
last night but did not think of it.  i'll post it
tonight when i get home(i'm on AIX by day).

--- Ernie Schroder <schroder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  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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