I got WDB, HP's port of gdb, from an HP web site and installed it.
I got DDD, a GUI front end to gdb, and installed it and used them
to get more data. BTW, using gdb with DDD is FANTASTIC!!! What a
wonderful set of tools!!! Both with full source and work great.
Anyway, I used them to run scotty and tracked execution to the call
to shl_load(3x) which was trying to load the tnm shared library.
It was fun to watch the execution of the Tcl Virtual Machine -
with DDD it was easy to see the reading of the startup script,
the compilation and then the execution - cool!
Execution gets to the call to shl_load(3x) in file tclLoadShl.c
which resides in the tcl8.0.4 source in directory tcl8.0.4/unix.
The arguments to shl_load(3x) have the correct full path to the tnm
shared lib. However, shl_load returns with a NULL handle and sets errno
to ENOENT(2) with is the infamous "no such file or directory"! Yet,
the full path being passed to shl_load is the correct full path and the
file is there and chatr(1) reports it as being a shared lib, etc, etc....
I will now investigate why the shl_load() is failing. Maybe the format of the
tnm2.1.10.sl file is not be what shl_load() wants since if I substitute another
shared lib file in place tnm2.1.10.sl, ie cp libtk8.0.4.sl to tnm2.1.10.sl,
then shl_load fails not with ENOENT but with ENOSYM. If and when I get this
one solved, I'll let the list know.
Again, thanks to those sending suggestions: Ari Reen, P. Davan, Mark Newnham
and Mullaparthi Chandrashekhar.
George Smith said:
> From: George Smith <gbs@swdc.stratus.com>
> Subject: Re: [tkined] building scotty 2.1.10 on HP-UX 10.20 (fwd)
> To: tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:15:24 -0800 (PST)
>
> I've had some time to get back to this problem now and have more data.
>
> I had already tried Mullaparthi's idea before but tried several
> values of SHLIB_PATH and it didn't help. Then I noted that the
> chatr on tnm2.1.10.sl specifies that SHLIB_PATH is disabled anyway,
> just as it is on libtk80.sl:
>
> $ chatr tnm2.1.10.sl
> tnm2.1.10.sl:
> shared library
> shared library dynamic path search:
> SHLIB_PATH disabled second
> embedded path disabled first Not Defined
> shared library list:
> dynamic /usr/lib/libl.1
> static branch prediction disabled
> data page size: 4K
> instruction page size: 4K
>
> So setting SHLIB_PATH won't help. I used chatr +s to enable SHLIB_PATH
> and tried various values of SHLIB_PATH and it still had the same error
> message (see first msg below).
>
> I tried an idea from Roy Terry: put some other shared library in place
> of tnm2.1.10.sl; I used a copy of libtk80.sl and this is what happens:
>
> $ ./scotty
> initialization failed: couldn't load file "/usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10.sl": unresolved symbol name
>
> So this says to me that the "no such file or directory" error message
> is not referring to /usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10.sl but to something that
> that library is trying to find.
>
> Any ideas as to what the sequence of events are here? The binary "scotty"
> is loading "tnm2.1.10.sl" which then trys to load something else. There
> is /usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10/pkgIndex.tcl which is what points at
> /usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10.sl and there is
> /usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10/library/init.tcl which does some manipulation
> of the auto_path and of a variable $tnm(library). Are there any users
> of scotty 2.1.10 that have it working on HP-UX 10.20? Advice or pointers
> appreciated. TIA.
>
>
> Mullaparthi Chandrashekhar said:
> > From - Mon Dec 28 09:35:20 1998
> > Message-ID: <3677473A.523D08FF@hpsgns1.sgp.hp.com>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:38:02 +0800
> > From: Mullaparthi Chandrashekhar <chandru@hpsgns1.sgp.hp.com>
> > Reply-To: chandru@hpsgns1.sgp.hp.com
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
> > X-Accept-Language: en
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: "George B. Smith" <gbs@swdc.stratus.com>
> > CC: tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
> > Subject: Re: [tkined] building scotty 2.1.10 on HP-UX 10.20
> > References: <199812160107.RAA08894@brando.swdc.stratus.com>
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> >
> > Hi!,
> >
> > You have to setup the SHLIB_PATH env var to point to this directory.
> > Any application which used shared libraries, needs this env var to be
> > set. It is the path in which the dynamic loader will search for shared
> > libraries which an application uses. Try setting this env var to:
> > export SHLIB_PATH=/usr/public/lib if you are using K-shell.
> >
> > You'll also have to add the standard search paths to this.
> >
> > hth,
> > Chandru
> >
> > PS: Check out the manpage on dld.sl for more information.
> >
> > George Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I downloaded the 2.1.10 version of the scotty package and am anxious
> > > to get to use this very nice package; however, I am tripping over a
> > > small problem. I have configured the package and it built fine.
> > > However, when I try to run the scotty executable, it outputs this:
> > >
> > > $ ./scotty
> > > initialization failed: couldn't load file "/usr/public/lib/tnm2.1.10.sl": no such file or directory
> >
>
>
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