Amanda-Users

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 17:30:22
Subject: Re: changer problems with 2.6.1
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:27:16 -0500
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote:
> Quick and dirty fix is to add the directory where the Amanda libraries
> are to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig.
>   Better (IMHO) option is to recompile Amanda either statically linked
> or with runtime library paths.  Otherwise you risk the problem of other
> programs potentially linking in the wrong libraries (although probably
> not an issue if the only ones there are the Amanda libraries, since the
> libam* namespace is not too likely to collide with other common libraries).

Thanks, Frank!  The runtime library paths suggestion is a good one.  You can use
 ./configure .. LDFLAGS="-R/opt/amanda-2.6.1_2009mmdd" ..
for that, if my memory of Solaris hasn't failed me.

Dustin

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