Re: gp2c trouble?

[John Cremona <john.cremona@gmail.com>]

Try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH ?

John

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Chris Card <ctcard@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> But when I try to load my gp2c file in gp it fails:
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>> \r auto.gp.so
>> *** Warning: auto.gp.so is not a GP binary file.
>> *** error opening input file: `auto.gp.so'.
>> *** Break loop: type 'break' to go back to GP
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>> I get a similar error if I use gp2c-run:
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>> $ gp2c-run auto.gp.c
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>> /auto.gp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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>> *** at top-level: install("rev","GD10,
>> *** ^--------------------
>> *** install: couldn't open dynamic library '/auto.gp.so'.
>> *** Break loop: type 'break' to go back to GP
>>
>> auto.gp.so exists and looks normal to me in a hex editor. What could
>> be going wrong?
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> I don't know much about gp2c, but this looks like an environmental issue.
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> That error seems to imply it's looking in the root directory '/' for the file, so
> possibly you need to specify the full path to the .so file, or set an environment
> variable.
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> Try running under strace to see exactly which system calls gp2c-run is making.
> Also check that auto.gp.so can load ok with 'ldd auto.gp.so'.
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> Chris
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