I’m trying to get a small embedded system running with shared libraries. It all works when I build my programs with “–static”, but to save room I now need to share libraries. But I’m having no joy. I’ve read the Program Library HOWTO and done everything that seems relevant

Development is on a 2.2.16 kernel, and the embedded system is a 2.4.8. I’m using uClibc which may be in odd place, but it works.

I’m creating a file system image for my embedded system in a subdirectory called tiny-linux, then generate a rom file system, and gzip the result into an initrd image. It all works OK until I try to build/run a program using shared libraries.

Build on the development system goes like …

[mike@local mapit]$ make
gcc -Wall -g -isystem/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/usr/include/ -O -c mapit.c
gcc -Wall -o mapit mapit.o -nostdlib -nostartfiles /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/usr/li
b/crt0.o -L/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/usr/lib/ -lc -lm
[mike@local mapit]$ ldd mapit
/lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40017000)
libc.so.0 => /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/lib/libc.so.0 (0x40022000)
libm.so.0 => /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/lib/libm.so.0 (0x4005f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40066000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
[mike@local mapit]$

[root@local work]# ldconfig -p -r./tiny-linux
9 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache'
libutil.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libutil.so.0
libresolv.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libresolv.so.0
libpthread.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
libnsl.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libnsl.so.0
libm.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libm.so.0
libdl.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libdl.so.0
libcrypt.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libcrypt.so.0
libc.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/libc.so.0
ld-uClibc.so.0 (ELF) => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0
[root@local work]#

When I run it on the target system all I get is

# ls -l /bin/mapit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27161 Jan 1 1970 /bin/mapit
# ./bin/mapit
./bin/mapit: No such file or directory
#

As I said, if I build the program with “-static” everything is OK.

It seems to me that it’s down to the libraries needed to resolve stuff when I build the program. I assume ld-linux.so is the loader, can I simply copy the loader from my development system, or should I be using ld-uClibc.so, in which case how do I tell the linker to use that rather then ld-linux.so.

Also libNoVersion. What’s that for ? Is there some way I can discover why that’s being linked to.

And lib.so.6, why is it using that rather than lib.so.0

Any help appreciated.