Re: Performer 2.2 "compat" libraries ineffective?
Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Fri, 1 May 1998 11:54:38 -0700
On May 1, 11:14am, Stuart Levy wrote:
>(1) Some apps compiled & linked in a Performer 2.0/2.1 environment refuse to
> find (for example) iv and iv20 loaders, even though the corresponding
> libpfiv_ogl.so and libpfiv20_ogl.so libraries exist and are successfully
> opened by the app, according to par(1).
>
> They consistently attempt to find Performer loaders by mapping
> the unqualified library names (libXXX.so, which are sym-links to the
> libXXX.so.4 latest Performer libs) rather than using names
> qualified by the major version number (libXXX.so.2) with which the
> program was originally linked.
>
> So if the installed version of Performer is different from the one
> they were linked with, the library versions fail to match, and the
> Performer loaders aren't found even though the correct versions do
> exist in /usr/lib/libpfdb.
>
> Putting appropriately-sym-linked .so files into {PF,}LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> allows them to find the relevant loaders.
>
> [By the way, some existing binaries *do* seem to search for Performer
> libraries by their .so.N qualified name. What causes the difference?]
The newer rld is the problem. You get it with IRIX 6.4 and if you have
installed patch 2458. Replacement patch 2715 resolves the problem on my IRIX
6.3 system. SGI can cross reference CASE ID# 0914635.
Regards.
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