Packages and dependencies

Question

Hi,
I've built a package to install Apache to a specific location.
This works fine as would be expected on the build box.
When I move it to the test deployment box the package installs ok but when i fire up apache
../bin/apachectl start
I get the following error.
ld.so.1: /apps/apache2.0.48/bin/httpd: fatal: libexpat.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed
Can anyone tell me how i can specify to the package creation to take dependencies with it.
Hope you can help
Tom

Answer 1

ld.so.1: /apps/apache2.0.48/bin/httpd: fatal:
atal: libexpat.so.0: open failed: No such file or
directory
Killed
Can anyone tell me how i can specify to the package
creation to take dependencies with it.If libexpat is in another package, then you should specify that package in the depend(4) file. If that package is not in another package, then you need to list libexpat and all of its bits in the prototype(4) file that you used to build your package.
Another thing to be careful of is the linker runpath. Be sure that Apache was compiled with the appropriate -R flag to ld(1) so that the httpd binary knows where libexpat.so.0 is supposed to be at without having to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (see ld.so.1(1)).
Rod Evans has been posting some very good information about -R in his blog. Go read http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/rie/20040710#tt_ld_library_path_tt and http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/rie/20040715#tt_dependencies_tt_define_what