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#1 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 08:38 PM

Hi All,

I compiled a program in a rare language (Common Lisp) on a 32-bit SUSE 10 system. When I load the program on my virtual server (64-bit SUSE 10) the program fails in accessing a 32-bit library libssl.so.0.9.8. (Because Lisp is dynamic, I can skip loading the library and the program works)

Thus I tried to install the 32-bit version of libssl on the 64-bit machine, which is offered by yast2. yast pretends to install this library, but when finished the library is not present.

I am no unix expert. So my question is: Can I install a 32-bit library on a 64-bit machine?

Any help appreciated.

Andreas

#2 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 08:38 PM

Andreas Thiele <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I compiled a program in a rare language (Common Lisp) on a 32-bit SUSE 10
> system. When I load the program on my virtual server (64-bit SUSE 10) the
> program fails in accessing a 32-bit library libssl.so.0.9.8. (Because Lisp
> is dynamic, I can skip loading the library and the program works)
>
> Thus I tried to install the 32-bit version of libssl on the 64-bit
> machine, which is offered by yast2. yast pretends to install this library,
> but when finished the library is not present.
>
> I am no unix expert. So my question is: Can I install a 32-bit library on
> a 64-bit machine?

Yes, in fact it should've.
Were you looking in the right place?
The way things evolved when 64bit x86 arrived was, 64bit libs went into the
/lib64 directories, and the old 32bit libs continued to reside in the /lib
directories...

Check /etc/ld.so.conf to make sure the library paths for the 32 bit libs are
accessable. (the paths are needed for ld to be able to link them)

Try doing a locate or find to see where libssl is.
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#3 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 08:38 PM

I demand that Andrew Halliwell may or may not have written...

[snip]
> The way things evolved when 64bit x86 arrived was, 64bit libs went into the
> /lib64 directories, and the old 32bit libs continued to reside in the /lib
> directories...

$ ls -ld /lib*
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 5120 2008-05-08 15:16 /lib/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-08-23 14:29 /lib32 -> /emul/ia32-linux/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-08-23 14:29 /lib64 -> /lib
$

[snip]
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#4 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 06:10 PM

Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Andrew Halliwell may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
>> The way things evolved when 64bit x86 arrived was, 64bit libs went into the
>> /lib64 directories, and the old 32bit libs continued to reside in the /lib
>> directories...
>
> $ ls -ld /lib*
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 5120 2008-05-08 15:16 /lib/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-08-23 14:29 /lib32 -> /emul/ia32-linux/lib
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-08-23 14:29 /lib64 -> /lib
> $
>
> [snip]
>> Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon
>> RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army
>> + Output less CO2 => avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*.
>
> This tagline exists to Ã¡Ã±Ã±Ã²Ã½ thÃ¶sÃª Ã±Ã³t Ã»sÃ*Ã±g ISO Latin1.

Hi Darren, hi Andrew

Thank you both for your help. I checked your proposals and everythink was fine.
Meanwhile I browsed through some forums and found that I have a memory problem.
My (1und1) virtual server has very little memory. This makes yast fail. I succeeded in
using yast by killing unneeded processes. This minimum memory usage made yast
work. Now I have installed the 32-bit version of openssl and my program is
completely happy.

Thanks.
Andreas

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