Bug 56549

Summary: [patch] rtld.c - give more info on missing shared libraries
Product: Base System Reporter: edwin
Component: binAssignee: Oliver Eikemeier <eik>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.8-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description edwin 2003-09-07 04:50:12 UTC 
When you try to start a program with a missing library, this is the
error message you get:

    /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found

You can find out that it is missing by using ldd (and exactly which
other library it requires by running ldd with the patch in bin/37448).

But yes, life could be so much nicer if it would tell you who was
missing it:

    /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found, needed by "/usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomemm-1.2.so.10"

At least I know I have to fight with libgnomemm instead of with the
original program.

How-To-Repeat: 
See above
Comment 1 Oliver Eikemeier freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-28 01:06:03 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

awaiting MFC
Comment 2 Oliver Eikemeier freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-28 01:06:03 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->eik

Committed to -CURRENT
Comment 3 Oliver Eikemeier freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-06-11 10:07:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Committed, thanks!