Amanda-Users

Re: 2.5.0 problems on Solaris 8

2006-04-21 15:52:28
Subject: Re: 2.5.0 problems on Solaris 8
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: Mike Delaney <mdelan AT lusars DOT net>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:47:29 -0400
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:25:02AM -0700, Mike Delaney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:41:54AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > I'm starting to upgrade my clients. The HP-UX boxes (10.20) went flawlessly.
> > 
> > But I'm having a few issues with my first Solaris 8 machine. Now in the
> > interest of full disclosure, these machines are "supported" by a 3rd party
> > OEM, and the machine I use for a build machine was recently "rebuilt" by
> > them to address a kernel memory leak issue, so odds are good what I'm
> > seeing is a result of their meddling, but I could use some help figuring
> > this out.
> >
> [snip] 
> >
> > My first amcheck failed. I tried to run amandad by hand, and found that the
> > dynamic linker was failing to find libgcc_s.so.1. I looked in .cshrc and
> > .profile, and found that they had broken LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I fixed this,
> > restarted inetd, and was able to run an amcheck. So far so good. 
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is at best a kludge.  Needing to use it is always a sign
> that something's broken.  (Having a 537 character PATH generally is, as
> well.)
> 
> > But, the next backups from this machine failed, and when I look in the
> > debug file, I find this:
> > 
> > ld.so.1: /opt/amanda/libexec/noop: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No
> > such file or directory
> > 
> > I'm  a bit confused by what sets up the search path for shared libraries
> > under Solaris 8, when they are invoked as services like Amanda does. Is
> > there a way to give the binaries a hard coded search path?
> 
> Yes, pass the -R/path/to/library flag to the linker at build time.  For
> Solaris systems, every -L given to the linker should have a corresponding
> -R.  libgcc_s.so.1 is a bit of a special case, since gcc is implicitly
> linking that one in when needed.  Figure out where it lives and pass
> the appropriate -R option via LDFLAGS when building.
> 
OK, should I manual add this to te Makefiles? Or is there a way to tell
configure this? Perhaps an environment variable?

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