[rescue] a couple of Solaris questions

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

Sounds like you need to set up an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
Solaris uses that variable to find dynamically linked libraries
at runtime.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul Phillips
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 18:57
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [rescue] a couple of Solaris questions
>
>
> This is only on topic because it has do to with my recently rescued dual
> processor Ultra 2 (which I REALLY like!).
>
> 1) What does everybody use for a graphical ftp client?  I downloaded LLNL
> xftp from SunFreeware, and it works, but it is pretty bare bones, and not
> particularly artistic to look at.
>
> 2) I want to remove the Apache that was installed with Solaris 8 and
> compile my own with mod perl.  So I go to the nice little Solaris Product
> Registry tool, and click on Apache, and it says:
>
> Dependent Components - Entire Distribution.
>
> What!?!  Will I break everything if I remove it?  Is there any
> problem with
> removing it and compiling my own? (Besides, it is version 1.3.9!)
>
> 3) Every once and awhile the path thing bites me.  I installed
> all the GNU
> stuff from the Additional software CD.  It seems to put all the
> executables
> and libraries inside /opt/sfw.  So today I was installing Mysql, which
> seemed to not be able to find libstdc++.so.2.10.0 when it needed it ( to
> run mysql_isntall_db).
>
> First I made sure that /opt/sfw/lib was in the path of the user that was
> running mysql_install_db, which was the "mysql" user.  That didn't work.
>
> Then I put a link to libstdc++.so.2.10.0 from the
> /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/, where there are some other shared libraries
> that belong to mysql.  That didn't work.
>
> Finally, I put a link to libstdc++.so.2.10.0 from the /lib directory, and
> that worked.
>
> My question - if /opt/sfw/lib was correctly in the path of the user that
> was trying to run the executable, why couldn't the executable find the
> library that it needed.  I checked by doing echo $PATH and it was there,
> clear as day...
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks so much for your help.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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