No, guile didn't install unistring, I had to build that as well. On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zyle Moore <[email protected]> writes: > > That's great you got it working. > > > 1. Add "/usr/local/lib" to a new file in > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf. > > This is in my view an Ubuntu bug for not allowing the normal RPATH > mechanism, and given that they don't, that it wasn't documented well > enough that you noticed :-) But apparently adding /usr/local/lib to the > ld.so.conf is the plan. I wonder what the docs said about how files in > /etc/ld.so.conf.d are ordered, both among themselves, and relative to > the built-in search path, but that's not about guile. > > > After doing this, running `ldconfig` resulted in this error > > /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm is not > an > > ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. > > > > 2. Remove libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm from /usr/local/lib > > > > I'm not sure if this is Ubuntu special sauce, or if this file is ending > up > > there incorrectly, but it really wants everything in all ld folders to be > > only ELF files. After doing these two steps after `sudo make install`, > > guile seems to be working now. > > guile script that is helpful for running guile under gdb. Read it! > > I don't think there are any rules in the larger POSIX ecosystem about > not having files that aren't ELF libs in $prefix/lib. I see this as a > self-inflicted wound by Ubuntu's ld.so.conf decision; normally a file > in $prefix/lib is only even opened if there is a NEEDED/RPATH > combination that references it. > > It may be that having .so in it somwehere is the issue. There are > non-ELF files in lib mnormally. FWIW on my system: > > $ ls -l /usr/pkg/guile/3.0/lib/ > total 4120 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 6 2022 guile > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2657138 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.a > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1063 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.la > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so -> > libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so.1 -> > libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1486880 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17469 Apr 26 05:46 > libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 26 05:47 pkgconfig > > > > Below is the output of ldd and objdump for context > > ldd: > > zymus@abyss:~/src/guile-3.0.11$ ldd /usr/local/bin/guile > > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc61064000) > > libguile-3.0.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1 > (0x00007aecfc4e7000) > > libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007aecfc200000) > > libgc.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgc.so.1 (0x00007aecfc472000) > > libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007aecfc465000) > > libunistring.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libunistring.so.5 > (0x00007aecfc017000) > > libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007aecfbf95000) > > libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007aecfc429000) > > libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007aecfbeae000) > > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007aecfc64a000) > > > > objdump: > > zymus@abyss:~/src/guile-3.0.11$ objdump -x /usr/local/bin/guile | egrep > > NEEDED\|RPATH > > NEEDED libguile-3.0.so.1 > > NEEDED libc.so.6 > > So missing RPATH as you already determined, but otherwise looks fine to > me. > > Did guile insttall unistring, or did you have to build that too? >
