[Tfug] Strange ld behavior

[R351574NC3]

Well,

On our servers at work, the default binary output is A.OUT. This doesn't 
really have anything to do with ld or ldconfig, but when ld is looking 
for ELF binaries and I produced an A.OUT binary, it will complain about 
incorrect ELF headers because it's not ELF.

I didn't set up our servers, so I have no idea why they are configured 
the way they are, but there is an ld.so.conf (for A.OUT binaries) and an 
ld-elf.so.conf. The GNU linker should be capable of reading various 
binary formats including ELF and A.OUT. I don't know why there would 
need to be a seperate cache and conf for each. I am quite baffled about 
this since it should not even be possible to do that with the GNU 
linker. At least, I don't think it is. GNU libc and GNU linker are both 
installed.

I doubt your system acts this way though.

-Leo

James Hood wrote:

>>things. Somehow LD_LIBRARY_PATH is what fixed my problem.  My problem 
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>That did it. I had tried setting that variable before, but I hadn't
>exported the variable. Once I exported it, all was as it should be. I
>ended up adding that line to /etc/init.d/httpd and my java support works
>now. It was still pretty weird.
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>>was that I had an 2 conf files. One was for a.out binaries and one was
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>>for elf binaries. There was some confusion between the two. Don't know
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>>if it is the same problem you are having though.
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>I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. Do you mean two ld.so.conf
>files? If so, were they named differently or stored in different areas?
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>Again, thanks for the help,
>
>James
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