Re: problems with pltcl.so

It was listed in the ldconfig hints file, but adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the
postmaster's login environment explicitly did the trick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad R. Larson" <clarson@eldocomp.com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; "Josh Goldberg" <josh@4dmatrix.com>
Cc: "postgres-admin" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] problems with pltcl.so


> In FreeBSD there is a utility called "ldconfig(8)" that sets up the hint
> cache.  If you add something to a library directory you will need to
re-run
> it, or reboot (it is run out of /etc/rc).
>
> At 06:50 AM 10/8/02 , Tom Lane wrote:
> >"Josh Goldberg" <josh@4dmatrix.com> writes:
> > > ERROR:  Load of file /home/postgres/lib/pltcl.so failed: dlopen
> > '/home/post=
> > > gres/lib/pltcl.so' failed. (Shared object "libtcl80.so.1" not found)
> >
> > > I am on freebsd 4.4, I have libtcl80.so.1 in /usr/local/lib and not
> > only is=
> > >  it in my ld-elf.so.hints file but I also manually put /usr/local/lib
> > in my=
> > >  LD_LIBRARY_PATH to no avail.
> >
> >I'm not very familiar with freebsd, but if it uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, keep
> >in mind that the value that counts is the one in the postmaster's
> >environment.  Did you restart the postmaster with the corrected path in
> >its environment variables?
> >
> >                         regards, tom lane
> >
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>          -crl
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