FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Federico Alves wrote:
> freebcp: error while loading shared libraries: libsybdb.so.5: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The weird thing is that the file exists in /lib. 

Probably the run-time linker is not looking for libsybdb in /lib, but
somewhere else.  The ldd utility will tell you if all libaries are found:

        $ ldd $(which freebcp)
        /usr/local/bin/freebcp:
                 -lpthread.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
                 -lsybdb.5 => /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.so.5
                 -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

The freebcp ELF executable can -- depending on how it was compiled --
include a list of directories to search for libraries.  That's the RPATH:

        $ readelf -d  $(which freebcp) | grep RPATH
        0x0000000f (RPATH) Library rpath: [/usr/pkg/lib:/usr/local/lib]

You can also usually get the runtime linker to report where it's looking. 
"man ld.so" is your friend here.  ISTR you're running Linux; according to
http://linux.die.net/man/8/ld-linux, it will look "[i]n the default path
/lib, and then /usr/lib. If the binary was linked with -z nodeflib linker
option, this step is skipped.".  It understands a long list of environment
variables, including our friend LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  

HTH.  

--jkl