HINTS.osf

Digital Unix (dec_osf)
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Often a problem like this:

apollo% perl -Iblib test.pl
Default Device for plot tests [recommend /XSERVE] ?
 ============== Running test1.p ==============
Can't load
'/scratch/astrop/vjm/build/PGPLOT-2.11/blib/arch/auto/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.so' for
module PGPLOT: dlopen: cannot load
/scratch/astrop/vjm/build/PGPLOT-2.11/blib/arch/auto/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.so at
/usr/physics/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line  140, <STDIN> chunk 1.
 
 at /scratch/astrop/vjm/build/PGPLOT-2.11/blib/lib/PGPLOT.pm line 29
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test1.p line 3, <STDIN> chunk 1.

The answer:

From: Vince McIntyre <vjm@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
 

Karl
the immediate problem was LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the bastard OSF/1 ld.

When I added /usr/X11R6/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the module loads ok.
The problem appears to be that our libcpgplot doesn't have runtime paths
embedded, and we need LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
So you're off the hook :-)

All I have to do now is figure out what's wrong with our installation of the
pgplot x11 devices... 

Thanks for listening
Vince

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