topic Re: Problems with "less" in Operating System - HP-UX

Problems with "less"

dictum9 — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:05:35 GMT

Do I need to install curses? I have man pages and all working fine. Why does it core dump when I run "less".

# less list
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libncurses.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
Abort(coredump)

Re: Problems with "less"

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:09:37 GMT

Hi,

Do a chatr for "less" and see what it requires.

Also, have you downloaded less from HP-UX porting center ? If yes, you have to download and install the following run time depedanciies.

Run-time dependencies: bison flex libgcc gettext libiconv m4 termcap

-Arun

Re: Problems with "less"

Peter Nikitka — Wed, 17 May 2006 10:04:08 GMT

Hi,

I have currently installed the package less from a depot less-385-sd-11.11.depot , downloaded from the HP porting center.
It uses the shared library
/usr/local/lib/libintl.sl
which is found in the product less.less-RUN .
This product I installed via the depot gettext-0.14.1-sd-11.00.depot found at the same place.

mfG Peter

Re: Problems with "less"

Sandman! — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:46:32 GMT

Which "less" package did you get from the porting centre...post the output of:

# ldd -v

thanks!

Re: Problems with "less"

dictum9 — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:03:43 GMT

# ldd -v /usr/local/bin/less

find library=/usr/lib/libc.2; required by /usr/local/bin/less
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2

find library=/usr/lib/libdld.2; required by /usr/lib/libc.2
/usr/lib/libdld.2 => /usr/lib/libdld.2

find library=/usr/lib/libc.2; required by implicit load
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2

find library=/usr/local/lib/libncurses.sl; required by /usr/local/bin/less
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libncurses.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

Re: Problems with "less"

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:13:20 GMT

Yes, you need to install ncurses.
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/ncurses-5.5/

The run-time dependencies for less look a bit strange to me. The libgcc, gettext, libiconv and termcap would make sense. It should also mention ncurses, the error message makes that obvious.

But bison, flex and m4 (parser generator tools and macro pre-processor, all programming tools) as _run-time_ dependencies for a text viewer like less??? Looks like a typical Porting Archive dependency documentation mistake.