Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so
 

Hi,

when trying to bump sci-geosciences/googleearth to a 6 beta version [1],
there's a problem with missing /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 file, which the binary
somehow requires, and otherwise fails with a rather cryptic error
message (saying that the binary itself is missing).
Apparently this is mandated by LSB and some distros provide it in
packages such as lsb-core (debian/ubuntu), redhat-lsb (fedora) or
glibc-lsb (mandriva), possibly along with other files. It's always a
symlink to ld-linux.so.2.


Gentoo only seems to have one lsb-related package (sys-apps/lsb-release)
which is just some query script.


So, I think the options are:

1) adding the symlink to the googleearth itself
2) adding an extra package for the symlinks
3) adding the symlink to glibc itself
4) working around it somehow

I've tried 4) with no luck (executing "ld-linux.so.2 googleearth-bin",
trying LD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides, putting ld-lsb.so.3 symlink in the
same directory as the binary), nothing worked except creating the
symlink under /lib. If there was a way, it would be easiest for me.


Doing 1) would be easy but rather incorrect and possibly result in
collisions in the future.


Doing 3) would be a question for glibc maintainers (didn't try yet), but
I guess they won't like it.


Doing 2) is a question of what package to put it in and what else to put
there. Frankly, I don't want to study all of LSB to see what's the
lsb-core/redhat-lsb packages about, just to get googleearth working, if
there's no general interest in LSB compliance. The mandriva approach
seems easiest for my needs (it's just the ld symlinks and nothing more).
But I understand that I shouldn't make such decision myself, so I ask
here. Thoughs?


Thanks,
Vlastimil


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348911

Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so
 

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when trying to bump sci-geosciences/googleearth to a 6 beta version [1],
> there's a problem with missing /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 file, which the binary
> somehow requires, and otherwise fails with a rather cryptic error
> message (saying that the binary itself is missing).
> Apparently this is mandated by LSB and some distros provide it in
> packages such as lsb-core (debian/ubuntu), redhat-lsb (fedora) or
> glibc-lsb (mandriva), possibly along with other files. It's always a
> symlink to ld-linux.so.2.
>
> Gentoo only seems to have one lsb-related package (sys-apps/lsb-release)
> which is just some query script.
>
> So, I think the options are:
>
> 1) adding the symlink to the googleearth itself
> 2) adding an extra package for the symlinks
> 3) adding the symlink to glibc itself
> 4) working around it somehow
>
> I've tried 4) with no luck (executing "ld-linux.so.2 googleearth-bin",
> trying LD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides, putting ld-lsb.so.3 symlink in the
> same directory as the binary), nothing worked except creating the
> symlink under /lib. If there was a way, it would be easiest for me.
>
> Doing 1) would be easy but rather incorrect and possibly result in
> collisions in the future.
>
> Doing 3) would be a question for glibc maintainers (didn't try yet), but
> I guess they won't like it.
>
> Doing 2) is a question of what package to put it in and what else to put
> there. Frankly, I don't want to study all of LSB to see what's the
> lsb-core/redhat-lsb packages about, just to get googleearth working, if
> there's no general interest in LSB compliance. The mandriva approach
> seems easiest for my needs (it's just the ld symlinks and nothing more).
> But I understand that I shouldn't make such decision myself, so I ask
> here. Thoughs?

Have you checked if patchelf can fix the googleearth binary? I think
that it is intended for this sort of problem:
http://nixos.org/patchelf.html .


> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348911
>

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binki

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Packaging LSB symlinks for ld-linux.so
 

On 01/31/2011 04:23 PM, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote:

Have you checked if patchelf can fix the googleearth binary? I think
that it is intended for this sort of problem:
http://nixos.org/patchelf.html .


Thank you, this really helped! And since patchelf is in the tree, I
could workaround googleearth immediately (which allowed the long overdue
version bump).


But if there's any outcome regarding the LSB symlinks, I will be happy
to switch it.


Vlastimil