ld.so.1: kinit: fatal: libkrb4.so.2: open failed: No such file

[Fredrik Tolf]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 13:15 +0000, "Ying Zhao" wrote:
> I downloaded krb5-1.3.5-sparc-sun-solaris2.9.tar and unpacked the tar to
> get it installed on my UNIX box. Then I tried to run kinit (the one in
> the unpacked directory), I got an error:
> 
> ld.so.1: kinit: fatal: libkrb4.so.2: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> 
> Then I checked the directory structure and found the unpacked stuff is
> under $MU_CURRENT_DIR/usr/local/lib. Should this be a problem if the all
> the kinit etc. are supposed to directly run under /usr/local/bin, and
> libraray be under /usr/local/lib rather than build another directory
> structure under my current dir?

Of course, this isn't really a Kerberos error, but an error in the
dynamic linker, and since I'm not sure how the dynlinker in Solaris
works, I cannot guarantee the correctness of my answer.

The usual POSIX dynlink behavior, however, is to first look in a few
system-defined directories (on GNU/Linux, these are
defined /etc/ld.so.conf -- I don't know whether that's POSIX-defined,
but it doesn't seem to exist on the Solaris system I have access to),
which usually include /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, and sometimes a
few others.

After that, the dynlinker looks in the directories specified in the
environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which, just like PATH, is a colon
seperated list of directories. If you want this to work, you will
probably want to add $MU_CURRENT_DIR/usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(don't forget to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH if it's not already defined).

Fredrik Tolf