/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: gdMalloc (code)

[Mike Hassell]

Please help!

I've come across a neat little program that takes web/ftp logs and converts them into nice charts/graphs in html (http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer). However, it's not functioning properly. Here's the info:

HP-UX 10.20
Problem program - webalizer 2.01-05
Requires - libpng 1.06c, jpeg6b, zlib 1.1.3, xpm 3.4k, freetype 1.3.1.

I've installed each of these via swinstall using from the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre (http://hpux.connect.org.uk). Each of them installed successfully.

However, when trying to execute the webalizer program it gives the following error, then core dumps:

Webalizer V2.01-05 (HP-UX B.10.20) English
Using logfile /opt/wu_ftpd/adm/log/xferlog(ftp)
Creating output in /opt/apache/lib/htdocs/webalizer
Hostname for reports is 'server1'
History file not found...
Generating report for March 2001
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: gdMalloc (code) from /opt/gd/lib/libgd.sl Abort(coredump)

When I do a 'strings /opt/gd/lib/libgd.sl' I see the gdMalloc reference, so I did a quick man on malloc and found that this is now an empty library but the functionally remains?

So I was wondering if anyone out there can give me some info to go further with as I have looked in newsgroup after newgroup for the info, to no avail.

Everything compiles sucessfully and it even executes, however it bombs out at this point time and time again.

I *have* patched dld.sl (PHSS_17255) and libc (PHCO_20441) with no luck. Any help would be greatly appericated, Thanks.

- Mike

[James A. Donovan]

Have you tried re-installing the gd package? The latest version on the HPUX Porting site is 1.84.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/gd-1.8.4/

[Mike Hassell]

Jim,

I have reinstalled the gd package, version 1.84 again, and it completed successfully. I can even run the gd utils from command line, ex:

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server1:/opt/gd/bin>./webpng
Usage: webpng [-i y|n ] [-l] [-t index|none ] [-d] pngname.png
-i [y|n] Turns on/off interlace
-l Prints the table of color indexes
-t [index] Set the transparent color to the specified index (0-255 or "none")
-d Reports the dimensions and other characteristics of the image.

If you specify '-' as the input file, stdin/stdout will be used input/output.
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When webalizer calls one of these gd utils, it brings up the error listed above. Does anyone out there have a working knowledge of malloc on HP-UX 10.20? I'm lost on where to turn with this one. Thanks.

- Mike

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

Did you build gd from the source code or install it from the pre-compiled depot? I'm thinking that maybe if you build from the source code then things may work.

I don't think that there is actually anything wrong with malloc or any HP library. A quick look through the gd source code showed that the gdhelpers.* files contain code to wrap the memory management function calls (including a wrapper function called gdMalloc). As far as I can tell though the code is OK, but C programming isn't my strongest suit.

[Mike Hassell]

Jim,

You are correct, seems the package on hpux.connect.ork.uk is corrupt. I found this message in comp.sys.hp.hpux today:

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The Binary package on HP-UX center is corrupted, get the source package
and edit the Makefile to insert the 2 missing object for libgd.sl (gdft
and gdhelpers i think, but see the list for libgd.a).
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They forgot two objects which cause the thing to bomb out. I've downloaded the source and recompiled manually and it works just fine. Thanks for your help.

- Mike