[ale] What the $%^&*

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Tom & JaVonn wrote:

> Jason:
>
> OK, it's working!  The libs were in a separate "optional" package, so /usr/local/thekompany/lib did not exist.  When installed the app runs.  Prior versions without any extras.

Prior to execution, I have found it useful to run "ldd binary" to
see if all the libs are found.

>
> Apparently bash wasn't verbose enough, saying "No such file or directory" and referring to the executable.  It MEANT missing resource, I guess.
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> Tom
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:01:42 -0500
> Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:32AM -0500, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > archer:/usr/local/quanta# file quanta-x11-x86
> > > quanta-x11-x86: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> > > archer:/usr/local/quanta# ./quanta-x11-x86
> > > bash: ./quanta-x11-x86: No such file or directory
> >
> > I've seen this exact error message when trying to execute a shell script
> > that was copied from a windows box.  The "shebang" line had a trailing
> > carriage return which gets interpreted as part of the file name, and
> > obviously couldn't be found.
> >
> > Clearly, from your output, the quanta-x11-x86 file is an executable, not
> > a shell script, so that's not the problem here.  But, perhaps it is
> > trying to load a resource or shared library and failing?  What does
> >     ldd /usr/local/quanta/quanta-x11-x86
> > report?  If that doesn't help, you can use strace, which should at least
> > tell you exactly what resource isn't found.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Jason
> > --
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> >
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