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Re: A request for packages to be added to debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Myron Freeman)
Fri Aug 29 16:25:08 2014
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From: Myron Freeman <fletch1@eecs.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:24:58 -0400
Cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu> wrote:
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>> ia32-libs - At some point this was added to Precise but it looks like only a subset is available under Trusty
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> This package doesn’t exist anymore. We have created debathena-athena-libraries-ia32 to replace it, and will happily add any :i386 versions of the libraries there, but we really wanted to avoid “just copy what ia32-libs looked like in precise”. Is it easy to get a list of what specific libraries it wants? “ldd” on the binary should be useful.
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I (and the TAs) will have to weave our way through a few binaries so this could take a little while.
>> libelf1:i386 - This exists under debathena on Trusty but a lot of the CAD tools look for the 32-bit library under /usr/lib32
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> Can you expand on this? They are dynamic libraries, so I’d hope that the software would just let ld.so do its job. Are they setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or otherwise doing something weird? While we can put a symlink it, I’m reluctant to do so for a dynamic library without better understanding exactly what’s failing.
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I'll have to look into what exactly is happening with this one.
>> A lot of the CAD tools are also hardwired to look for awk at /bin/awk so I'm requesting that be a link to /etc/alternatives/awk
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> We can make /bin/awk a symlink to /usr/bin/awk (which in turn is a symlink to /etc/alternatives) on cluster machines, however if you have a contact with the vendor, we’d appreciate it if you could report the issue to them (if you haven’t already) and encourage them to just use ‘awk’ in $PATH, if it exists. I realize there’s little hope of it getting fixed, but we are trying to stick to our policy of not putting in hacks/workarounds unless the bug has been reported.
Sure we'll report it to the vendors but I wouldn't hold my breath for a positive result :-)
-Fletch
