Biber cannot find a shared library

[Wierdl Máté]

Thanks,

# ln -s libnsl.so.3 /lib64/libnsl.so.1

did the trick.  I guess, I need to report this to the biber folks as well,
as Karl Berry advised.

Máté

Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. márc. 6.,
Sze, 15:24):

> M. Wierdl asks about a missing libnsl.so.1 in biber on Fedora 39.
>
> I just checked one of my Fedora 39 systems and found that it has
> more recent generation numbers:
>
>         % file /lib64/libnsl.so*
>         /lib64/libnsl.so.3:     symbolic link to libnsl.so.3.0.0
>         /lib64/libnsl.so.3.0.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64,
> version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,
>         BuildID[sha1]=dc26e257974a037b378927c4b91e57bce85a7e6e, stripped
>
> Most cases of minor version differences in shared libraries can be
> trivially fixed
> by a symlink.
>
> If you have root access on the machine
>
>         # ln -s libnsl.so.3 /lib64/libnsl.so.1
>
> should fix it for everyone on that machine.
>
> If not, then
>
>         $ mkdir $HOME/lib
>         $ ln -s /lib64/libnsl.so.3 libnsl.so.1
>         $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH $HOME/lib
>         $ biber
>
> should work for a single user.
>
> Shared library version number differences in GNU/Linux distros are a
> pain for software that is built on one system, and expected to work on
> many others.  Also, most library packages fail to supply static
> libraries (lib*.a), and only supply dynamic ones (lib*.so*), leading
> to this problem.
>
>
>
>
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