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srs5694
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 Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:21 am Post subject: Running a 32-bit libc5 application |
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Hi,
I'd like to be able to run WordPerfect 8 for Linux, which is a very old libc5 32-bit application, under Gentoo on an AMD64. I've got this program running without too much trouble under SUSE's AMD64 version by installing some libc5 compatibility RPMs. It then runs with no problems. When I install the same RPMs under Gentoo (by converting them to tarballs and extracting their files into the /emul/linux/x86 directory tree, adding the relevant directory to /etc/ld.so.conf, and running ldconfig), I get nothing. Typing the program name produces the following error message:
| Code: | | bash: /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory |
This is the message I get when running it on a 32-bit distribution with no compatibility libraries installed. The libraries I've installed are called ld.so-1.9.5-13, libc5compat-1.0-4, and libc5compat-X11-1.0-4. Typing "ldconfig -p" shows that the system is finding the libraries I installed. Does anybody have any suggestions for what else I might need to add, what I might need to replace, or what configurations I might need to change? Thanks.[/code] |
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srs5694
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I should have known I'd fix it ten minutes after posting a plea for help!  In case anybody else has this problem in the future, it turns out that the location of one of the libraries, ld-linux.so.1, is hard-coded to be in /lib, so by placing it in the /emul/linux/x86 directory tree, I guaranteed that it couldn't be found. Once I moved that library to /lib, everything started working. |
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slackerman
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:45 am Post subject: Look at the shell script you're calling... |
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Take a look at the shell script you're calling. It's not finding '/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp'.
- slackerman
P.S.: In Gentoo, the "appropriate/accepted" way to add things to your ld.so.conf file is to:
1. Edit a file in the env.d (or add one to the directory...)
2. Run /usr/sbin/env-update
It's a little bit more organized way of doing things... |
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