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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> when trying to bump sci-geosciences/googleearth to a 6 beta version [1], |
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> there's a problem with missing /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 file, which the binary |
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> somehow requires, and otherwise fails with a rather cryptic error |
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> message (saying that the binary itself is missing). |
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> Apparently this is mandated by LSB and some distros provide it in |
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> packages such as lsb-core (debian/ubuntu), redhat-lsb (fedora) or |
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> glibc-lsb (mandriva), possibly along with other files. It's always a |
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> symlink to ld-linux.so.2. |
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> Gentoo only seems to have one lsb-related package (sys-apps/lsb-release) |
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> which is just some query script. |
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> So, I think the options are: |
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> 1) adding the symlink to the googleearth itself |
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> 2) adding an extra package for the symlinks |
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> 3) adding the symlink to glibc itself |
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> 4) working around it somehow |
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> I've tried 4) with no luck (executing "ld-linux.so.2 googleearth-bin", |
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> trying LD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides, putting ld-lsb.so.3 symlink in the |
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> same directory as the binary), nothing worked except creating the |
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> symlink under /lib. If there was a way, it would be easiest for me. |
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> Doing 1) would be easy but rather incorrect and possibly result in |
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> collisions in the future. |
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> Doing 3) would be a question for glibc maintainers (didn't try yet), but |
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> I guess they won't like it. |
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> Doing 2) is a question of what package to put it in and what else to put |
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> there. Frankly, I don't want to study all of LSB to see what's the |
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> lsb-core/redhat-lsb packages about, just to get googleearth working, if |
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> there's no general interest in LSB compliance. The mandriva approach |
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> seems easiest for my needs (it's just the ld symlinks and nothing more). |
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> But I understand that I shouldn't make such decision myself, so I ask |
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> here. Thoughs? |
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Have you checked if patchelf can fix the googleearth binary? I think |
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that it is intended for this sort of problem: |
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http://nixos.org/patchelf.html . |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348911 |
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