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Effect if any of changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH environnment variable on emacs fonts?
The rendering of my emacs fonts changes if I define a specific list of directories under the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just before I call emacs. I changed this because I wanted to use emacs ...
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Setting Up Cross Compiler, Linux x86_64 to Solaris 10 SPARC
I have a student account for a Solaris 10 SPARC server at the university I go to, and I thought it would be interesting to set up a cross-compiling GCC on my home Linux x86_64 computer so that I could ...
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Using symbolic links and git to manage build versions
In general I follow the following workflow when I build any program (e.g. emacs, tmux, etc.)
/home/opt/[name of the program]/builds/[version]/
bin
lib
share
For example for a program like tmux I ...
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Introspection of the interface of a shared library
I have a problem with a library I'm working with for the first time ( it's Boost.Python but my question is much more general than this case).
As a consequence I need to check what is the interface of ...
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Library Migration
I have one pre-compiled shared library, which require GLIBC-2.9 But I want to use it against GLIBC-2.8.
I am very much sure, source code have not used any function which was introduces in 2.9
Since ...
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libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application and library
libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.39
libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.4.0
libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application ...
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Where did /usr/lib64 go and what is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu?
I have two Ubuntu-x86_64 systems. One is version 10.04, the other 12.04 and there is a difference in the structure of the lib directories. This doesn't surprise me, but I'm curious if anyone knows ...
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How do I get a list of shared library filenames under Linux?
Is there a GNU Linux built-in for getting a list of the filenames of shared libraries? I have considered parsing the output of ldconfig -p. However, I'm not sure about consistency in output from ...
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Is there a way to use/recompile libgio-2.0 on machine with libc-2.5?
I have a program (JavaFX 2, namely), and one of its binaries (libglass.so) requires libgio-2.0.so.0. The problem is, the system, on which I need to run the app, is quite old and mostly out of my ...
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ld-uClibc.so missing
I am trying to run an executable on Angstrom Linux, but ash tells me
-sh: ./myEx: not found
I've checked with readelf the program interpreter and it is
root@beagleboard:~# readelf -l myEx | grep ...
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startx error when setting up X server on archlinux
I am trying to install X on my archlinux home desktop. I get this error when trying to start it (startx/xinit):
[root@computer ~]# startx
xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file ...
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How to check if libfftw3_threads.so.3.2.4 shared library was compiled for pthreads or for OpenMP?
There is FFTW library installed by an administrator system-wide, in /usr/lib64, and it includes /usr/lib64/libfftw3_threads.so.3.2.4.
When I compiled this library myself, before it was installed by ...
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How to install a shared library in Linux
As part of my research work I have to study a rootkit. So I downloaded ncom rootkit and tried installing. It didnt have any installion files. Please help me in installing it.
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EGLIBC vs GLIBC on laptops
From what I understand the primary cause of fork/branch of EGLIBC as compared to GLIBC was the problem with patches for ARM that Debian devs wanted to push upstream.
I have slightly different ...
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What is the difference between a Library call and a System call in Linux?
I would like to know what is the difference between a Library call and a System call in Linux. Any pointers for a good understanding of the concepts behind both will be greatly appreciated.
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What files should I copy from Windows into Wine?
As far as I understand Wine runtime does better if some libraries are copied from MS Windows, but some Windows system libraries really are not to be used with Wine (some can even make it stop working, ...
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Running a statically linked binary with a different glibc
I have a statically linked binary for a tool that I'm trying to run on RHLE4. The tool complains about glibc. It needs 2.4 and the one in the system is 2.3.
Here is the message that it spits out:
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What libraries are there for reading/editing ID3s of mp3?
I think the title says it all. I need a library to allow me to read and edit ID3 Tags
from C++ in Linux. Suggestions?
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What does libgcc_s.so contain?
I tried running objdump on the lib to figure it out without success. Is there a way to find out what a library does?
