Re: a (different) library question

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

It turns out to have been a misleading error message.   It's not the
library that isn't found but a report from a routine in the library
that some data has not been found.   It had the Tcl chatroom fooled
too.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 14:51, Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > The rpath suggestion seems the most likely way forward.   Is there a
> > way of getting the library search list/order from a running program,
> > or from the executable file?   Tcl certainly does allow arbitrary
> > dynamic libraries to be loaded at run time (it is even possible for
> > Tcl code to write new code itself dynamically involving the loading of
> > an arbitrary library, though nothing so complex is going on here).
> > I'm asking the same question of the Tcl community.   My instinct is
> > that there is some missing or misplaced file or directory in the
> > layout of the machine in question.
> 
> Not for a process, but objdump -p or readelf -d show relevant
> information for dynamic executables.
> 
> According to ld.elf_so(1),
> 
> > Dynamic loading via dlopen(3) uses the DT_RPATH entries of the main
> > binary, independently of which object the call came from.
> 
> In your case, this might refer to the Tcl interpreter or the host
> application in case of an embedded interpreter. If those are also
> identical, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas..
> 
> Joachim
>