Amanda-Users

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 18:17:10
Subject: Re: changer problems with 2.6.1
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:11:09 -0500
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:27:16PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
> 

The server is on Linux, but I will work through the solution, given this
clue. Thanks.

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