Re: GNU grep 2.7 missing library dependency

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/06/2010 03:21 PM, Fraser, Jim wrote:
> I downloaded and installed GNU grep 2.7 from
> http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/grep-2.7/.  I found that GNU
> grep 2.7, to be installed in /usr/local/bin/, has a hard-coded
> dependency on /usr/local/lib/hpux32/libintl.so.  When I tried to run
> this version of grep on a HPUX 11.31 server, it complained
>
> address@hidden:/usr/local/bin$ ./grep
>
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library
> '/usr/local/lib/hpux32/libintl.so'.
>
> Killed
>
> I could not find the hard-coding by "strings grep |
> /usr/local/bin/grep -I libintl".  However, when I did "od -cx
> /usr/local/bin/grep>grep.hex" and used vi to search grep.hex for "l
> i" (small L, three space, and i), I found the hard-coded string.
> Please update the run-time dependencies on the GNU grep 2.7 web page
> to reflect this, and also supply a copy of libintl.so to be
> installed.
>
> When I did "swlist -l file | grep -I libintl" on our server, it found
> /opt/gtk2.6/lib/libintl.so.  Unfortunately, the path to libintl.so is
> hard-coded in GNU grep 2.7, so it will not use this alternate
> location of the library.

I am sorry, the people usually on this mailing list are not related to 
this particular binary of GNU grep that you received, and in fact are 
unlikely to have access to HP-UX systems altogether.

The right address seems to be address@hidden (from the "Contact Us" 
page on the website you mentioned).

Paolo