Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:56, Joachim Goeschel wrote:
> I am still pretty new to Linux and might not figure how to handle symbolic
> links correctly.

Basic format

ln -s /path/object /path/link
'ln' = link
'-s' specifies symbolic (not a 'hard' link)

The problem is matlab expects to find libc.so.6 but it isn't there... the 
newer (frequently backwards-compatible) library has a newer version number 
than matlab knows about.

Listing from my 10.0 /lib:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1405291 2005-09-09 13:36 libc-2.3.5.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      11 2006-03-12 20:29 libcap.so -> libcap.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 2006-03-12 20:29 libcap.so.1 -> 
libcap.so.1.92*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   34670 2005-09-09 11:59 libcap.so.1.92*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  191505 2005-09-09 13:36 libcidn-2.3.5.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      16 2006-03-12 20:28 libcidn.so.1 -> 
libcidn-2.3.5.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 2006-03-12 20:31 libcom_err.so.2 -> 
libcom_err.so.2.1*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    6536 2005-09-09 11:58 libcom_err.so.2.1*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   47724 2005-09-09 13:36 libcrypt-2.3.5.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 2006-03-12 20:28 libcrypt.so.1 -> 
libcrypt-2.3.5.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      13 2006-03-12 20:28 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.5.so*

See all the links carrying older library names pointing to later versions of 
the same libraries? That's what Carlos and I are suggesting as a reasonable 
test... or, at least I am. ;-)

> Furthermore, if I remove the lines
>
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.21
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

If you haven't seen any documentation recommending this change, why would you 
implement it?

regards,

Carl