[geeks] Solaris linking issue

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:21:33 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> Maybe I should be asking how to find out exactly what library it is
>> trying to load.  The symbol being complained about is in a library
>> linked to another library that is run time loaded, so ldd ./couchdb
>> won't show me anything (actually ./couchdb is a script, but ldd erlc
>> will also show me nothing useful since ICU is being used by a
>> library that erlc loads in response to a runtime command).
>
> Isn't there an -R flag when compiling under Solaris that specifies the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (sort of) for that specific binary ? I think that's how
> OpenCSW/Blastwave get over exactly the problem you're having. It may be
> worth checking their sites to see if they've got some hints.

At least with gcc, you would do something like:

-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib -licui18n

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org