Thank you Bob,
Does it really work?
Zsolt
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Proulx [mailto:bob@proulx.com]
>Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 7:13 PM
>To: Zsolt Koppany
>Cc: Subversion List
>Subject: Re: How to build subversion to run on most Linux systems?
>
>Zsolt Koppany wrote:
>> We would like to ship subversion with our application to customers that
>use
>> different Linux systems (Suse 8.x,9.x,RedHat-7.x,9.x,RHE-3,RHE-4.
>>
>> How should I build subversion?
>
>What I do is to include all of the libraries my application is using
>in a lib directory next to my application bin directory. I copy all
>of the shared libraries used by the programs to that directory. Then
>I wrap the program with a shell script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>that directory. I override the native GNU libc library by calling the
>ld.so directly on the binary. This allows you to use a specific
>version of glibc other than the natively installed one.
>
>Assume your wrappers are in bin and your real binaries are in libexec.
>The structure would look like this. The names of the libraries will
>vary by version and architecture. Using subversion as an example it
>would look similar to this.
>
> ./bin/svn # wrapper script
> ./libexec/svn # real binary
> ./lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ./lib/libc.so.6
> ./lib/libz.so.1.1.4
> ./lib/libneon.so.24.0.7
> ... long list of libraries and symlinks to libraries deleted ...
>
>Here is some shell code to illustrate use.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> MYAPPDIR=$(dirname $(dirname $0))
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MYAPPDIR/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
> exec $MYAPPDIR/lib/ld-linux.so.2 $MYAPPDIR/libexec/$(basename $0) "$@"
>
>Calling an application explicitly through the use of ld-linux.so.2 has
>an additional advantage in that it also allows a 32-bit application to
>run on a 64-bit amd64 or ia64 system mode if the kernel also allows it.
>
>If you are supporting multiple architectures then it would be best to
>put all of the architecture specific files in an architecture specific
>subdirectory. I would mirror the proposed multiarch hiearchy. Then
>adjust the script above to call the appropriate architecture. That is
>straight-forward and so is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
>
>Here are some ideas as to how to get a list of libs to copy to your
>distribution area. You will want both the shared library and the
>symlink to it copied to your application area. (Hint: Use 'cp -a' to
>copy syminks as symlinks.)
>
> ldd /usr/bin/svn | awk '{print$3}'
> ldd /usr/bin/svn | awk '{print$3}' | xargs ls -l | awk '{print$NF}'
>
>Enjoy improved platform independence!
>
>Bob
>
>Useful References:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11250.html
> http://www.linuxbase.org/LSBWiki/MultiArch
> http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/ideas/multiarch/
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