[Vm-dev] LD_LIBRARY_PATH woes on a 32 bit Debian machine

[Frank Shearar]

On 24 July 2013 18:21, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Casey,
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Casey Ransberger <
> casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've hit this bug too, just the other day, after building a recent Stack
>> VM for the Pi (under Raspbian, a Debian derivative.) I tried setting the
>> env var, but it didn't help.
>>
>> I googled and found a report (I linked to it in a recent post on vm-dev,
>> too lazy to look for it this second, but I will if it will help the Cause)
>> on some Pharo issue tracker where someone else had the same problem. The
>> workaround listed was to eschew the squeak startup script and hit the
>> binary directly, e.g. run
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/<version>/squeak Image.image
>>
>> ...This would seem to indicate that the startup script is the culprit.
>>
>
> The script os asking you to edit it.  If you read he script you'll see it
> contains a simple case statement which is relatively easy to extend.  Frank
> has done what is asked and reported the issue to vm-dev so I can extend the
> version of the script in the repository.  So how is the script a "culprit"?
>

It's even confessed to the crime! It's now a perpetrator, not a culprit!

frank


>
>> Based on some other errors I saw, and a bit of digging on the web, it
>> would seem the problem is related to ldd returning output that the script
>> doesn't expect, and erroneously treats ldd's result as empty. Or I think
>> that's what's happening. I despise UNIX shell scripts (I mean WTF backwards
>> keywords to end blocks,) so I'm just hitting the binary directly and hoping
>> someone else will fix the shell script; in the meantime, I must go.
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is from a failed job on Tony Garnock-Jones' build slave. It's a
>>> Debian of some kind, 32 bit.
>>>
>>> Can't infer base LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Aborting. Try adding a line for
>>> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7582000) to
>>>
>>> /home/tonyg/jenkins/workspace/ExternalPackages-Metacello/target/cogmt.r2749/cogmtlinux/bin/squeak.
>>> Please report your edit to squeak vm-dev.
>>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Casey Ransberger
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> best,
> Eliot
>
>
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