[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.2.0 build fails on libxapian.la target - Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9) sun4u SPARC

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 12:52:15PM -0600, Craig Talbert wrote:
> For whatever reason when
> ran as user nobody omega couldn't find libuuid.so.1 (although this ran
> fine from the command line). I ended up copying libuuid.so.1 putting
> it in omega's directory and then added the current directory to the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in the perl script and that
> worked. I did this after trying to put libuuid.so.1's regular location
> in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (in my case /lib) and also trying to run omega with
> the setuid bit set -- neither of those worked.

My suspicion would be permissions of one of the files or directories involved.
Running under strace as nobody and yourself and comparing the traces might
help spot the difference.

> I'd imagine if I was more unix-savvy I could get to the root of the
> issue it had finding libuuid.so.1 (it doesn't seem like a xapian
> issue) but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

As you say, it seems unlikely to be a Xapian issue.  Could be libtool perhaps.

Cheers,
    Olly