A.P. Lawrence

This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open Desktop or Openserver.

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OSR5 FAQ

Why do I get "dynamic linker" errors or load failures?

If you get an error like the following.

dynamic linker: svrmgrl: error opening libprogram.so
Killed

install_driver(program) failed: Can't load

PERL_MODULE::program: dynamic linker: perl: relocation error: symbol not
found: getrusage at....

These messages all mean that you do not or have not setup LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable or Your Program isn't setting up LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly, or your install of the program was faulty.

This can be solved by adding the shell variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LIBPATH with the proper search path. For example if you are using bourne or korn shell

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/mysql/lib:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/lib
LIBPATH=/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH LIBPATH

From the man page on ld:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is also used to specify library search directories to the
dynamic linker at run time. That is, if LD_LIBRARY_PATH exists in the
environment, the dynamic linker will search the directories it names
before its default directory for shared objects to be linked with the program
at execution.

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