Re: Swarm Installation report (Linux-FT)

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 09:43 AM 1/7/97 +0000, Barry McMullin wrote:
>
>I've just been through the process of installing Swarm
>(961020) on my Linux (FT Rev 1.2, on a G2K Pentium
>Pro box).  It wasn't *too* bad - about a day's work -
>but there again, this was my second time around, so
>I had a fair idea what I was looking out for.  Anyway,
>in case it may be helpful to anyone else, here's
>some notes on the process.  It's fairly specific to
>linux, and even the FT distribution - but it might give
>some useful ideas for other platforms also.
>
>[...]
>
>2: Prerequisite Libs:
>=====================
>
>This is the most fraught part of swarm installation - 
>for me anyway! Firstly because of the difficulty in 
>identifying what libs (in what versions, formats, and
>locations) are already installed; secondly in installing
>extra and/or updated libs; and thirdly (worst of all)
>making sure that the correct one (of multiple available
>versions) is used in each case...
>
>A good starting point (on Linux) is:
>
>  $ ldd -p
>
>which gives a listing of the installed *shared* libs
>that ld.so will be able to find.  Of course this is not
>
>[...]

Barry,

this was VERY useful! I'd been wondering myself about getting everything
linked dynamically, and your post gives some nice pointers to where to look
for the problems. Thanks!

One little nit: on my system (RedHat linux), ldd does not take a -p switch,
but ldconfig does ...

Sven