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author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-02-11 12:11:01 +0000 |
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committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-02-11 12:11:01 +0000 |
commit | 49b75f5ef5da3136e4b4015e23e2fe38aacbc7b3 (patch) | |
tree | e36cde16427ca76fb999f344e66533245f06ebb3 /FAQ.in | |
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@@ -1215,6 +1215,50 @@ ignore the warnings. compiles after converting an old program to standard C. +?? After upgrading to glibc 2.1, I receive errors about + unresolved symbols, like `_dl_initial_searchlist' and can not + execute any binaries. What went wrong? + +{AJ} This normally happens if your libc and ld (dynamic linker) are from +different releases of glibc. For example, the dynamic linker +/lib/ld-linux.so.2 comes from glibc 2.0.x, but the version of libc.so.6 is +from glibc 2.1. + +The path /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hardcoded in every glibc2 binary but +libc.so.6 is searched via /etc/ld.so.cache and in some special directories +like /lib and /usr/lib. If you run configure with another prefix than /usr +and put this prefix before /lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, your system will break. + +So what can you do? Either of the following should work: + +* Run `configure' with the same prefix argument you've used for glibc 2.0.x + so that the same paths are used. +* Replace /lib/ld-linux.so.2 with a link to the dynamic linker from glibc + 2.1. + +You can even call the dynamic linker by hand if everything fails. You've +got to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the corresponding libc is found and also +need to provide an absolute path to your binary: + + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-where-libc.so.6-lives> \ + <path-where-corresponding-dynamic-linker-lives>/ld-linux.so.2 \ + <path-to-binary>/binary + +For example `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/libold /libold/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/mv ...' +might be useful in fixing a broken system (if /libold contains dynamic +linker and corresponding libc). + +With that command line no path is used. To further debug problems with the +dynamic linker, use the LD_DEBUG environment variable, e.g. +`LD_DEBUG=help echo' for the help text. + +If you just want to test this release, don't put the lib directory in +/etc/ld.so.conf. You can call programs directly with full paths (as above). +When compiling new programs against glibc 2.1, you've got to specify the +correct paths to the compiler (option -I with gcc) and linker (options +--dynamic-linker, -L and --rpath). + + ? Miscellaneous ?? After I changed configure.in I get `Autoconf version X.Y. |