Re: libpopt.so.0 cannot open shared object file

[Frank Rehberger <Frank Rehberger web de>]

Philippe Zenhaeusern wrote:

> helllo,
>
> I wanna compile orbit2-2.7.2 but have just big trubels. the configure 
> process works
> fine, but when I run make, it stop like this:
>
> ../../../src/orb/orb-core/corba-defs.idl
> ../../../src/idl-compiler/orbit-idl-2: error while loading shared 
> libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No su file or directory
>
> I can't understand that while popt-1.7 is properly installed. I tried 
> the same with every version
> up to orbit2-2.7.6, allways the same fault. when I compile the version 
> orbit2-2.7.0 it works,
> but this version is to "less" for libbonomo-2.3.4 ? 

Never seen this error before, what distribution are you using?
Try this workarround: define a symbolic link,  so that linker can find 
the library on startup of orbit-idl-2.

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libpopt.so libpopt.so.0

Best regards, Frank