Re: [Freevo-devel] childapp.py's subprocess.popen can't open dynamically linked binaries under openbsd 4.6/python 2.5.4

On 17/02/2010 3:15, [email protected] wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I'm trying to port freevo svn install to openbsd 4.6 and I think I'm
> nearly there and ready to capture and blog the changes I had to make :)
>
> However I face hopefully one last issue:
>
> childapp.py uses the python subprocess popen call which executes
> mplayer gives a quick screen blank or redraw and the OS tries to load
> mplayer I see if I watch 'ps ax' while trying to watch a movie.  But
> nothing actually plays and the mplayer-stderr* log file reads:
>
> /usr/local/bin/mplayer: can't load library ''
>
> I see if I make /usr/lib/mplayer a simple /bin/sh script I can run any
> statically compiled binary in here from freevo with no errors.
>
> However if place a dynamically compiled binary in my script to be
> called it fails and logs to the mplayer-stderr*:
>
> $BINARY_PATH/$BINARY: Can't load library ''
>
> Currently my shell script looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/libexec:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib
> /usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer.real>/tmp/output
>
> This results in log lines of the following:
>
> /usr/bin/ldd: can't load library ''
>
> I think this is probably OpenBSD specific but on my googles can't find
> a way to allow python to call dynamically linked binaries and be able
> to find/load the libraries it needs :(
>
> Anyone know a way around this or a good place to start digging?
>
> Alistar =)
>
>
> Quoting Alistar Burrell<[email protected]>:
>
>    
>> Good Evening,
>>
>> I'm trying to port freevo svn install to openbsd 4.6 and I think I'm
>> nearly there and ready to capture and blog the changes I had to make :)
>>
>> However I face hopefully one last issue:
>>
>> childapp.py uses the python subprocess popen call which executes with
>> a lib path of just /usr/lib (probably a compiled in default of openbsd
>> somewhere) however mplayer and other things need access to libs in /
>> usr/local/lib and I don't wan to copy them there!
>>
>> Can any of you python/freevo heads offer up a fix? My python is almost
>> non existent but I have a feeling there is a way of passing it these
>> as an environment before calling anything with popen the first time.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alistar =)
>>      
Hi Alistar,

Sounds like you're getting close. You might be better off asking these 
questions on the devel list though.

John

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