[Expat-discuss] Expat Problem on Solaris system!

Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@urgent.rug.ac.be
Tue, 1 May 2001 10:21:50 +0200 (CEST)


>         I downloaded expat from http://expat.sourceforge.net link.
> Installed it on Solaris platform using
>                 ./configure
>                 make
>                 make install
> 
>         commands, which install expat.h in /usr/local/include and
> libexpat.so.0.0.1 in /usr/local/lib directory, respectively.
>         When I compiled my C program which uses the expat.h header file,
> I got the following error message when try to run the program.
> 
>                 ld.so.1: ./daemon: fatal: libexpat.so.0: open failed: No
> such file or directory
> Killed


I have no solaris experience, but I would try this as this helps on linux
:

1) check your /etc/ld.so.conf and see that /usr/local/lib is included here
2) after make install, run /sbin/ldconfig as root.

thomas

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