Linux Specific
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-last updated: Fri Oct 25 18:40:00 BST 1996
+last updated: Mon Oct 28 10:25:00 BST 1996
current maintainer: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
original author: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
-0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
*1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
*1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
+*1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
+ dlfcn.h missing
+*1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
*1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
src/Makefile.global?
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/devel/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.14-4.i386.rpm
+ Install the RPM file in the usual way and off you go!
+
There has been one report of a corrupted system resulting from
programs accessing these libraries while updating them (not
altogether surprising). Consequently it is a good idea to reboot
have as little running as possible during this upgrade. Going
into single-user mode is probably a good idea!
- Install the RPM file in the usual way and off you go!
-
If you want to do it the hard way, you can obtain the library and the
header file from:
1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
dlfcn.h missing
- See the answer to question 1.2. Don't forget that if you are using
+ See the answer to question 1.3/1.4. Don't forget that if you are using
an a.out system you must first have installed the dld package
(which is not supplied with most a.out systems) to have dlfcn.h
at all. See Question 1.11.
ELF for dynamic loading, then you have messed up your installation
or (more likely) upgrade of Linux.
- See the answers to Question 1.2. You may need to install
+ See the answers to Question 1.3/1.4. You may need to install
ld.so.x.y.z in /lib and run ldconfig.
The most recent stable release of the ld package is 1.7.14
I haven't been able to repeat this problem! Nobody else has
reported anything similar.
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+Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin, University College London & SciTech Software
+EMAIL: martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Tel:(Work) +44(0)171 419 3890
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