[7973] in testers
Re: compatibility readline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Mar 25 00:14:24 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:13:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
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I don't believe the releases of Debian or Ubuntu that include
libreadline.so.5 package a libreadline.so.4, and Debathena doesn't really
want to have to maintain our own libreadline.so.4 package or provide
guarantees about the old Debian packages working on newer releases.
If there are a significant number of such binaries (I haven't run into
many), we could definitely pursue this as an upstream bug with Debian. But
recompiling them for the i386_deb[45]0 arch is probably easier.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Apparently a lot of binaries in afs fail because of a lack of libreadline.so.4.
> Why isn't there one installed for compatibility purposes?
> Seems to work via the "random" method:
>
> [kid-icarus!jhawk] ~> rehash
> [kid-icarus!jhawk] ~> nickle
> nickle: Command not found.
> [kid-icarus!jhawk] ~> athrun 5c nickle
> nickle: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [kid-icarus!jhawk] ~> whichlocker libreadline.so.4
> Locker software on Athena is maintained by many different people.
> Don't run this unless you know the maintainer can be trusted.
> "libreadline.so.4" is in "mono_v1.1.13" for linux
> "libreadline.so.4" is in "python" for sun4
> [kid-icarus!jhawk] ~> env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mit/mono_v1.1.13/lib athrun 5c nickle
>>
>
> (works)
>
> --jhawk
