The mystery of the missing library.

[Bryan Drewery]

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On 7/28/15 10:43 PM, David Naylor wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 17:08:37 Bryan Drewery wrote:
> 
>> On 7/28/15 11:46 AM, David Naylor wrote:
> 
>>> Why would the shared library be found when using a relative
>>> path but not
> 
>>> when using an absolute path? Is this a bug in FreeBSD?
> 
>> 
> 
>> What is the output for readelf?
> 
>> 
> 
>> readelf -d `which pypy`|grep -i libr
> 
> 
> 
> ```
> 
> # readelf -d `which pypy` | grep -i libr
> 
> 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpypy-c.so]
> 
> 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libthr.so.3]
> 
> 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.7]
> 
> 0x000000000000000f (RPATH) Library rpath: [$ORIGIN/]
> 
> 0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH) Library runpath: [$ORIGIN/]
> 
> ```
> 

I don't know what $ORIGIN is here but it is very suspicious to me (I
haven't looked into it). I would have expected an actual path. This is
likely the reason for the behavior you are seeing.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery
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