Re: Weird Torcs error

Hi Eugene

I found an old entry in the list, so this was reported once before, but 
the reporter did not come back. Here it happened as well, but I guess he 
did not pass the right parameters to configure, because moving the 
"torcs" script solved his case:
http://www.linuxcore.fr/2013/01/torcs-the-race/

Anyway, to diagnose the problem, please check:
- How did you start torcs, just with "torcs" on the shell? Does "which 
torcs" point to the file of your build or maybe to another version?
- Does "torcs -l" find the libraries?
- If you open the "torcs" script, does LIBDIR etc. look good, are the 
torcs libraries in $LIBDIR/lib (the "torcs" script is generated during 
the build process based on your configure settings)?
- Do you have the Ubuntu packaged TORCS version installed, if yes, 
remove all of it (or just use it, but do not mix).
- Did the configure/build work fine, anything special about that (maybe 
the linker reported that it ditched something), what options did you use 
(configure --help), any special compiler/linker options?
- if you run "nm libtgf.so | grep XML_ParserCreate", is the symbol found 
(returns here "U XML_ParserCreate"). If not, then we need to figure out why.
- is it possible that your dynamic linking is somehow hardened/outdated, 
check ld.so.conf, ldconfig and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

So you see it is very hard to guess from here... can you work through 
the list and post your findings?

Best regards

Bernhard

On 11/13/2013 06:04 PM, Evgenios Kastanias wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Eugene
>>
>> Never seen this before, it is possible that you mix up TORCS components
>> shipped with Ubuntu with your own version (I think the debian TORCS
>> package does not link to the expat version shipped with TORCS, but to
>> the system expat)?
>>
>> There is a known build time linking problem with 1.3.4 (fixed in
>> 1.3.5-test1) and earlier on Ubuntu, because Ubuntu sets as default the
>> linker option --as-needed, see:
>>
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.games.torcs.general/1584
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>
>
>
> Hello and thanks for your fast reply!
>
> I  unistalled the 1.3.4 version and installed the new one 1.3.5 test1
> version. However I am still getting the same thing, and being honest I don't
> know exactly how to apply that patch you suggested.
>
> I am sorry for the trouble and thanks again for any help!
>
>
>
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