Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:47:02 GMT

I have just installed expect on one of our servers and I get the following errors when I try to run it:

host1:/home/root >/usr/local/bin/expect
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: Tcl_Release (plabel) from /usr/local/lib/libexpect.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: Tcl_ErrnoMsg (plabel) from /usr/local/lib/libexpect.sl
Abort(coredump)

I am using the latest versions of expect, tcltk, etc. from the HP-UX Porting Centre and I have installed all the runtime dependencies that are listed.

I would be grateful for any suggestions

The following may or may not be useful....

host1:/home/root >ldd /usr/local/lib/libexpect.sl
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2
/usr/lib/libdld.2 => /usr/lib/libdld.2
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2
/usr/lib/libm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.2
/usr/lib/libdld.2 => /usr/lib/libdld.2
/usr/local/lib/libtcl.sl => /usr/obam/lib/libtcl.sl
host1:/home/root >nm /usr/local/lib/libexpect.sl|egrep 'Tcl_ErrnoMsg|Tcl_Release'
Tcl_ErrnoMsg | |undef |code |
Tcl_ErrnoMsg | 58000|uext |stub |
Tcl_ErrnoMsg | 141184|static|entry |$CODE$
Tcl_ErrnoMsg | 141208|static|entry |$CODE$
Tcl_Release | -4|uext |stub |
Tcl_Release | |undef |code |

Re: Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:54:24 GMT

I suppose it might be helpful if I mentioned some versions ...

HP-UX 11.11
Expect 5.43
Tcltk 8.5.7
libXft 2.1.13

Re: Errors running expect

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:04:17 GMT

Where should these symbols be defined?
Can you use nm on usr/local/bin/expect and /usr/obam/lib/libtcl.sl. Is the latter the right one, since not in /usr/local/lib?

Re: Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:24:40 GMT

Re: Errors running expect

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:49:55 GMT

>nm /usr/local/bin/expect

(I only needed to see those two missing symbols.)

>nm /usr/obam/lib/libtcl.sl
>nm: /usr/obam/lib/libtcl.sl: no symbols

The proper tool for shlibs is odump:
odump -slimp -slexp /usr/obam/lib/libtcl.sl |
grep -e Tcl_ErrnoMsg -e Tcl_Release

Re: Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:01:59 GMT

Thanks for the response, I get no matches when I run that command

Re: Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:41:15 GMT

Fixed it ... the SHLIB_PATH was wrong, it should have been /usr/local/lib as you suggested ... points assigned, many thanks

Re: Errors running expect

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:51:18 GMT

>points assigned, many thanks

Please read the following about assigning points. (You need to push the submit button.)
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

Re: Errors running expect

Richard J Harper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:01:31 GMT

Sorry, had a bit of a 'Friday' moment ...

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