[MIT-Scheme-devel] Re: Problem running scheme 20090107 in fedora 12

[Aaron W. Hsu]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:19:30 -0500, oliver bunnin  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I've downloaded from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mit-scheme/snapshot.pkg/20090107/mit-scheme-20090107-ix86-gnu-linux.tar.gzand
> checked that the md5sum was correct, then followed the instructions on
> the webpage:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/Unix-Installation.html.
> I get the following error when I run scheme:
>
> address@hidden local]# scheme
> scheme: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I did a check with find and got:
> ./lib/mit-scheme/lib/prmhash.so
> ./lib/mit-scheme/lib/prgdbm.so
> ./lib/mit-scheme/lib/prbfish.so
> ./lib/mit-scheme/lib/prmd5.so
> where ./ = /usr/local/lib
>
> I tried renaming prgdbm.so as libgdbm.so but got the same error message,
> this was having set the path to include /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme/lib/ .
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

You don't want to do what you just did. Those shared object files are for  
interfacing with the gdbm library that is installed on your system.  
Instead, you need to locate where the gdbm libraries exist on your system  
and find out why they were not identified by MIT Scheme. Use a locate and  
search for libgdbm.so, and if you cannot find it, well, then that's your  
problem! You should install the gdbm package if you do not already have it  
installed. Usually, if you compile MIT Scheme, you can choose whether or  
not to install this package, but I don't know how it works with this  
particular packaging. It has been a while since I used MIT Scheme.

        Aaron W. Hsu

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