On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:37:59AM +0000, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Eliot,
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> SOL?? �Is that really the message we want to send to current and *prospective* users? �Canonical does something that makes sense from a security perspective (one needs root privileges to alter the ldconfig mapping, not to to use it). �All the vm needs to do is request the #moduleName as given, and users of Pharo "SOL" as a result?
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> Please reconsider.
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> Bill
>

I think you are taking the response out of context. The actual statement
was "Then you're SOL :) �You'd need to write new support for Ubuntu."

You might take that as a gentle suggestion to expend a bit of effort
on it yourself. After all, it is open source, and Eliot is only one
person. He can't do everything for everybody without a little help
from the rest of us.

Dave

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> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Cog+linux: external module not found
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu<mailto:bschwab@anest.ufl.edu>> wrote:
> Nick,
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> Partial success. �After a false start with getting output from strace (my fault), it showed me that the vm was looking a lot in the vm's directory. �A symlink by the same name, allowed it to see the library. �Clearly, this is not a fix, because one should not be forced to make links to any/every library on the system. �However, it *was* nice to see the version string in an inspector :)
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> Looking at the strace output (relevant parts below), it tries with prepending lib, appending .so, .so.dylib. �It looks in the vm's directory, and in the root directory, not /usr/lib.
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> It has been almost a year (based on a dated comment) since I last really strained my synapses on the workings of ldconfig. �On my systems, it would tell one to look for the library as follows:
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> � � ldconfig -p | grep Acces
> � � libAccesIO-USB.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libAccesIO-USB.so
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> #moduleName answers 'libAccesIO-USB.so', and Ian's vm finds it. �My (and I use the term LOOSELY) understanding is that Ubuntu no longer uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH. �dlopen() seems to prefer that one use the names as reported by ldconfig. �The best explanation I have found is that the change was a security measure.
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> Then you're SOL :) �You'd need to write new support for Ubuntu.
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> How does one get ldconfig to "know" where something lives? �Putting a .so file in /usr/lib (and perhaps other places too) and then running ldconfig as sudo appears to build a cache. �Then ldconfig -p (anyone can run this) will show the map, and one can grep the result to find something specifc, as above.
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> Putting files in /usr/lib is a pain for things under active development. �A file can live anywhere if one puts a .conf file in /etc/ld.so.confd; the .conf files should contain paths to directories to be searched for .so files - or at least that's how it *appears* to work. �Run ldconfig as sudo to refresh the mapping, and verify with ldconfig - p.
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> The fix might be as simply as having the cog vm try passing the #moduleName to dlopen().
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> Nick, thanks for the nudge in a working direction. �I will probably symlink another file and see if a mix of hardware and software will get closer to cooperating with me.
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> Bill
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