libm

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I'm still trying to build gnome-2.10 ... it's broken right now in building
> audio/arts.  The current error is one that's becoming depressingly
> familiar: moc died, it's missing a "libm.so.2".  In the past, for all
> these kind of errors, I would track down the executable that needed the
> old libm, but I am wondering, maybe it wouldn't be all that horrible a
> thing, to fake it out?

It could potentially be quite horrible to fake out.

>
> Would it work for me, do you think, to have a softlink, from libc to libm?
> Woud it hurt anything? (As long as I didn't try to propagate anything that
> wanted to use libm!)  Would it actually work, solve that dependency
> problem?

No.  you should instead hunt down the library that is still linked to 
libm.so.2, and rebuild it.

>
> Or am I actually, for some reason, really better served by tracking down
> the old software and relink it?  That's a heck of a lot of extra work, you
> understand, right?

Not that much work, you can wrap a find command around it:

find /usr/local/lib -name "*.so" | xargs ldd > /tmp/local.out

Repeat for /usr/X11R6/lib, and hunt down the library that way. 
Alternatively, you can watch the failing build.  ld-elf.so.1 should tell 
you which library wants libm.so.2.

Joe

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