link lib issues

[Michael Murphy_2]

I am running an old proprietary app and getting and error during runtime: /usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: ../../libtddd.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

A couple questions:
- this has many libs associated with it - is there a way to find which exec/lib references this?
- is there a way to FORCE this to look for this lib in a different place?

I get the error above when trying to run an executable - i don't see any reference to this lib in the makefile for the exec so I assume one of the libs it links in has a reference - i tried using chatr on the exec but do not see any reference. Thanks

[Rita C Workman]

If you know where that file is....maybe you could reference the path in the /etc/SHLIB_PATH file.

Just a quick thought,
Rita

[Dennis Handly]

Where did that shlib go?

>this has many libs associated with it - is there a way to find which exec/lib references this?

(What is "this" and "it", the app or the shlib? It is better to repeat the name.)

If you want to see what shlibs the application uses, use "chatr app". You may have to use chatr(1) on all of your apps to find them all.

>is there a way to FORCE this to look for this lib in a different place?

If the application is linked correctly, you can export SHLIB_PATH to point to the proper directories.

>I don't see any reference to this lib in the makefile for the exec so I assume one of the libs it links in has a reference

You can also use chatr(1) on shlibs.
Or you can use ldd(1) on your executable and it will list all shlibs, until it finds one missing.

>Rita: maybe you could reference the path in the /etc/SHLIB_PATH file.

It is probably easier to export SHLIB_PATH in an appropriate script, than to try to figure out which application rates high enough to be put into SHLIB_PATH.