Re: LIBPATH issues on AIX

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 12/17/10 11:54 AM, Andy Wallis wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote:

> > On AIX[1], we just installed some AIX-base-system software that
> > included it's own /usr/lib/libexpat.so as a 32-bit object. But
> > pkgsrc has /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat.so as a 64-bit object for
> > fontconfig et al.

> In AIX 5.3, expat shouldn't be a shared library. The RPM that IBM
> provides as part of their "IBM LInux Applications for POWER" kit uses
> /usr/lib/libexpat.a which is a symlink to
> /opt/freeware/lib/libexpat.a. Did it come from the Bull Freeware
> archive? What TL and SP level are you running?

$ oslevel -s
5300-12-02-1036

> Can you do a lslpp -w /usr/lib/libexpat.so to see if some installp
> fileset installed it?

It was installed from a fileset from a third-party vendor. Not from the 
"Toolbox for Linux Applications".

> > I can't just set LIBPATH in, say, /etc/profile because the [very
> > important] things that depend on /usr/lib/libexpat.so will break
> > (and who knows what else).

> If only selected users are going to use certain applications, you
> could set up  /etc/security/environ so that those users get a custom
> LIBPATH instead of setting a global one.

I'm hoping to not have to hardwire this stuff into environments. It 
becomes unmanageable. I want the executables know where to look for 
their dependencies properly.

> > What's the best way to solve this problem?
> >
> > [1] AIX 5.3, xlC 9, pkgsrc-2010Q2. Also the following are set in mk.conf
> >
> > CFLAGS+= -O3 -qstrict -qcpluscmt -qkeyword=inline
> > ABI=64
> > OBJECT_MODE=64
> > .export OBJECT_MODE
> > DBG=