Dear Waldek, Gaby, somewhat unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the failure anymore. Possibly the administrators changed something, I don't know. It seems that there is now a link to libreadline.so.5 from libreadline.so that was not present when the build failed.
I'm very sorry for troubling you, Martin Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > | do a symbolic link from libreadline.so.4 to libreadline.so > > > > All suggestions I've seen so far look like that one. Can anyone > > explain why that is supposed to do anything sensible? > > > > I would not like to see Axiom, a scientific computational platform, > > built on superstition. > > We should really ask Martion what the following commands give: > > ldd /users/rubey/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/AXIOMsys > ldd /users/rubey/axiom/obj/linux/bin/interpsys > > I ask about interpsys because it is used during build and normally > it also links readline. On Debian systems there is > '/usr/lib/libreadline.so' which is a link to '/lib/libreadline.so.5' > AXIOMsys compiled on machine where libreadline.so.5 is installed > should look for libreadline.so.5 (and not for libreadline.so.4). > So either Martin is using binary build on different system or > there is somewhere libreadline.so.4 which was picked when linking > AXIOMsys, but is not in the paths searched by dynamic linker. > One typical case is when program contains its own sources of > shared libraries -- program may succesfully link against such > shared library but it can not run because by default dynamic > linker searches only standard locations (in fact I suspected > for a moment that Axiom has own copy of readline stashed > somewhere, but after checking I think it is not the case). > I would try first typing: > > locate libreadline.so.4 > > which on one of Debian machines found '/lib/libreadline.so.4' > (this one is from compat package and should work fine, but > something more strange may cause troubles). > -- > Waldek Hebisch > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > Axiom-developer@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
