Re: Undefined symbol "getpwuid_r"

[Sorry for delayed reply.  I'm offline mostly lately.]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:09:06PM +0000, David Leimbach wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:53 AM, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just done a buildworld and installworld from yesterdays CVSUp (today, 
> > 22nd,
> > 10:51am GMT+1).
> >
> > However, whenever I launch ymessenger now I get:
> >
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libglib12.so.3: Undefined 
> > symbol
> > "getpwuid_r"
> >
> > Has anyone got an idea about this?
[snip]
> >
> > If any further info is required just let me know.
>
> Have you recompiled the ymessenger code?  It sounds as if
> some .so got replaced from an old compile and the code should
> no longer link if you rebuild it.
> 
> The new NS stuff Jacques is working on most likely has caused
> this.  It looks as if you may just need a rebuild of ymessenger.


I don't think it is my fault :-)

ymessenger is a binary port.  It is linked against libc.so.4 (IIRC),
which does not have getpwuid_r.  Therefore, when ymessenger loads
libglib12.so.3 (which was built against the newer libc.so.5), glib
cannot find getpwuid_r in libc.so.4 (naturally).

If getpwuid_r hadn't gotten you, something else probably would have :-)

Basically, ymessenger can't really run on later versions of FreeBSD.
It is dynamically linked against 12 libraries (besides libc.so.4),
many of which have had ABI changes.

I had a need to run ymessenger on FreeBSD 5 several weeks ago.  In
order to do so, I had to go back to old 4.5 CDs and extract libglib,
libgtk, and so on into a special environment just to run ymessenger.

You are better off running some other client, e.g. GAIM.


But, if you insist:

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Download 
<URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~nectar/ymessenger-hack.tgz > and extract it
somewhere (BUT NOT IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY) and run it as shown.


  % mkdir $HOME/ymessenger
  % cd $HOME/ymessenger
  % tar zxvf /path/to/ymessenger-hack.tgz
  % env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/usr/local/lib ./usr/local/bin/ymessenger.bin


Someone with time on hand should update the ymessenger port to install
the dependent libraries, too.  *shrug*

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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