Hello,

I made some cgi programs using free pascal. it works very fine. but now i'm moving to a new server (SuSE 7) and the programs don't work anymore (at leat not the one that use mysql). The following error is displayed:

./login: error in loading shared libraries: ./login: undefined symbol: __libc_init

I have searched in the message archive and found some similar threads, but in my case it does not help to upgrade the fpc compiler (using snapshot from 21th february.

BUT: On my local machine (SuSE 6.3) and on the older server (SuSE 6.1) the programs work.
I noticed also that on the new server there is only libc 6:

/lib/libc.so.6

whereas on the other machines (also my local one) there is libc 4 and 6:

/lib/libc.so.4 (symlink)
/lib/libc.so.4.7.6
/lib/libc.so.6

I also have read that the compiler detects the libc version. So is the libc version set at compile time? I alway compile the programs on my local machine and then upload them to the web server.

Maybe the compiler detects and uses libc v4 and that is not available on the new server,

What shall I do? I don't like much to change the web servers configuration (i mean, if it's possible NOT to install other libc versions).

Please help!

Thanks

Udo

At compiletime as an other startup module is necessary.

Try recompiling on the new server. And be sure that the libraries are the same on all machines, then you're really sure that things work on all machines.

Peter

Le jeu, 01 f�v 2001, vous avez ecrit :

All cgis I have written in Freepascal (since version 0.9.x) run perfectly on my suse 7.0 (but i have to recompile them). My CGI works with get or post method and calls mysql unit fmethods.

I don't think that the problem is due to freepascal/suse 7.0...

Hello Peter,

Thursday, February 01, 2001, 11:55:24 PM, you wrote:

PV> Try recompiling on the new server. And be sure that the libraries are the PV> same on all machines, then you're really sure that things work on all PV> machines.

I can't compile it on the new server, because I just own a account on it and haven't enough space to install the compiler and the programm sources. :(

Hello Cyril,

Friday, February 02, 2001, 9:10:27 AM, you wrote:

CL> Le jeu, 01 fév 2001, vous avez ecrit :

CL> I don't think that the problem is due to freepascal/suse 7.0...

Well, I just think the problem is that I compile the program on one machine (SuSE 6.3 with libc 4) and use it on another machine (SuSE 7 with libc 6).
As far as I understood the program needs the same libraries that were on the compiling machine to run.

Then you could try to link static on your own working machine. Try to pass -k-static to the compiler, or pass -s and postedit ppas.sh and link.res prior to linking (check man page LD for parameters)

You can try to overwrite cprt0.o with cprt21.o.