CGI Frustration

[John J. Theobald]

Ken Ray wrote:

> Yes, I set both the Linux executable and the script to 755. What shared libs
> would MetaCard need?
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Yennie at aol.com>
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: CGI Frustration
> 
> 
> 
>>It sounds like you did it right, but that the ISP machine is missing some
>>shared libs to run the MetaCard executable....
>>
>>One more double check- did you make both the script and the engine
>>executable? It sounds like your setup is ok (see above), but that would
>>
> also
> 
>>cause problems.
>>
>>Brian
>>
>>
>>> linux: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open
>>>shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>Did I so something wrong here? Provide a wrong path?
>>>
>>
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The library that is needed should be in /usr/X11R6/lib.  If I had to 
guess, it either is not there OR the linker can't find it at runtime 
because it is not looking in the correct folder(s).

Can you see if libXext.so.6 lives in the /usr/X11R6/lib directory?  If 
it does not, can you search for the library with ...

$ find /usr -name libXext.so.6

...and see if the library is found somewhere else?

If it is in /usr/X11R6/lib or found elsewhere, you'll need to tell the 
linker where to find it by doing something like pre-defining the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable with:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib

...or get the system admin to make sure the ld.so.conf file contains the 
  folder where the library resides followed by re-running the ldconfig 
command to update the linker.

Last, if the library can't be found on the system, you'll need to find 
which RPM contains that library and install it.

Hope this helps,

Johnn J. Theobald