The mystery of the missing library.

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:46:14AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 22:05:54 Bart??omiej Rutkowski wrote:
> > I've checked how linux does it and it seems they're (at least Debian) 
> doing
> > static linking - that would fix the issue, whatever it is. Can you adjust
> > the port to do the static instead of dynamic linking binary?
> 
> ```
> # cd /usr/local/bin
> 
> # rm pypy                                                                                               
> 
> # ln ../pypy-2.6/bin/pypy                                                                               
> 
> # ls -l pypy                                                                                            
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  5152 Jul 28 22:10 pypy                                                                                  
> 
> # pypy                                                                                                  
> Shared object "libpypy-c.so" not found, required by "pypy"                                                                         
> 
> # `which pypy`                                                                                          
> Shared object "libpypy-c.so" not found, required by "pypy"
> ```
> 
> I had a look at Debian and they seem to have quite a large patchset 
> applied to pypy.  Perhaps they patch it to make it work?  
> 
> Based on the documentation from pypy it appears they think a symlink 
> should work.  

There were relatively recent (as in, Feb 2015) changes to always resolve
symlinks for $ORIGIN expansion, using realpath.  The changes are in HEAD
and in stable/10, also in all 10.2 BETAs and RC.

What version of the userspace do you use ?  If not the versions listed
above, try them.  Hopefully, $ORIGIN starts behaving for you.