Problem with iconv_open() in 32-bit App.

I have some code that has been compiled for x86 that is not working on IA64 --
specifically on Redhat 7.2 running on an IA64 machine.

Are there known problems with 32-bit applications using the iconv() routines
on IA64?

All the details of what I'm seeing follow.

THE PROBLEM
=====
A 32-bit binary that calls the iconv_open() routine does not appear to work on
an IA64 system. When such a program is run on the IA64 system, iconv_open ()
returns an errno value of 22 (EINVAL). The iconv_open() routine sets that errno value when the codeset conversion being requested is not supported by the system.

If the program is re-compiled on the IA64 system, it will run correctly. That
is, the iconv_open() routine will return an indication of success.

If the codeset conversion modules from /usr/lib/gconv are ftp'ed from an i686
system onto the IA64 system and the GCONV_PATH environment variable is set to point to the directory holding the ftp'ed conversion modules, the 32-bit binary will run.

So the root of the problem appears to be that iconv_open() causes some shared
objects in /usr/lib/gconv to be loaded into the address space of the program.
If the program is a 32-bit binary, the loading fails because the shared objects in /usr/lib/gconv are 64-bit objects.

The following section illustrates the program. The section after that contains commentary.

PROBLEM ILLUSTRATION
==========

[01] /tmp/agar # ls -l
total 8

drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Mar 19 17:11 ftped32
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 19 17:03 native64

[02] /tmp/agar # cd native64
/tmp/agar/native64 # ls -l
total 20

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14865 Mar 19 17:03 iconvopen
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          318 Mar 19 17:02 iconvopen.c

[03] /tmp/agar/native64 # cat iconvopen.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iconv.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)

{
    iconv_t cd;


    cd = iconv_open("UTF-8", "ISO8859-1");

    if (cd = (iconv_t)-1) {
        printf("iconv_open() failed with errno %d.\n", errno);
    } else {
        printf("iconv_open() worked.\n");
    }

    return 0;
}

[04] /tmp/agar/native64 # objdump -T iconvopen

iconvopen: file format elf64-ia64-little

DYNAMIC SYMBOL TABLE:
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 00000000000000a0 GLIBC_2.2
printf
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000020 GLIBC_2.2
__errno_location
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 00000000000005e0 GLIBC_2.2
iconv_open
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000250 GLIBC_2.2
__libc_start_main

[05] /tmp/agar/native64 # ./iconvopen
iconv_open() worked.

[06] /tmp/agar/native64 # cd ../ftped32

[07] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # ls -l
total 28

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 19 17:14 gconv32
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14066 Mar 19 17:06 iconvopen
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          318 Mar 19 17:06 iconvopen.c
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           54 Mar 19 17:11 iconvopen.sh

[08] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # objdump -T iconvopen

iconvopen: file format elf32-little

DYNAMIC SYMBOL TABLE:
000000000804837c w DF *UND* 0000000000000081 GLIBC_2.0
__register_frame_info
000000000804838c DF *UND* 0000000000000216 GLIBC_2.1
iconv_open
000000000804839c DF *UND* 0000000000000018 GLIBC_2.0
__errno_location
00000000080483ac w DF *UND* 00000000000000ac GLIBC_2.0
__deregister_frame_info
00000000080483bc DF *UND* 00000000000000ca GLIBC_2.0
__libc_start_main
00000000080483cc DF *UND* 0000000000000032 GLIBC_2.0
printf
00000000080483dc w DF *UND* 000000000000009d GLIBC_2.1.3
__cxa_finalize
00000000080485c4 g DO .rodata 0000000000000004 Base
_IO_stdin_used
0000000000000000 w D *UND* 0000000000000000
__gmon_start__

[09] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # ./iconvopen
iconv_open() failed with errno 22.

[10] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # cat iconvopen.sh
#!/bin/ksh

export GCONV_PATH=./gconv32
./iconvopen

[11] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # ls -l ./gconv32
total 4128

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18360 Mar 19 17:14 ANSI_X3.110.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 ASMO_449.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       124660 Mar 19 17:14 BIG5HKSCS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        83992 Mar 19 17:14 BIG5.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8216 Mar 19 17:14 CP1250.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 CP1251.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 CP1252.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 CP1253.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8152 Mar 19 17:14 CP1254.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 CP1255.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8248 Mar 19 17:14 CP1256.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8216 Mar 19 17:14 CP1257.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 CP1258.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8208 Mar 19 17:14 CP737.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8296 Mar 19 17:14 CP775.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 CSN_369103.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8280 Mar 19 17:14 CWI.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 DEC-MCS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-AT-DE-A.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-AT-DE.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-CA-FR.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-DK-NO-A.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-DK-NO.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        16024 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-ES-A.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        16024 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-ES.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7896 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-ES-S.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-FI-SE-A.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-FI-SE.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-FR.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15896 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-IS-FRISS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-IT.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-PT.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15928 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-UK.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7832 Mar 19 17:14 EBCDIC-US.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 ECMA-CYRILLIC.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        13512 Mar 19 17:14 EUC-CN.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        12404 Mar 19 17:14 EUC-JP.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10880 Mar 19 17:14 EUC-KR.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        17892 Mar 19 17:14 EUC-TW.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       187960 Mar 19 17:14 GB18030.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        52668 Mar 19 17:14 GBBIG5.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7944 Mar 19 17:14 GBGBK.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       109572 Mar 19 17:14 GBK.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        38489 Mar 19 17:14 gconv-modules
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8024 Mar 19 17:14 GOST_19768-74.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 GREEK7-OLD.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 GREEK7.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 GREEK-CCITT.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        17304 Mar 19 17:14 HP-ROMAN8.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 IBM037.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7832 Mar 19 17:14 IBM038.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1004.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1026.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8440 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1046.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1047.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1124.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8152 Mar 19 17:14 IBM1129.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 IBM256.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM273.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 IBM274.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7896 Mar 19 17:14 IBM275.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM277.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM278.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM280.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 IBM281.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM284.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM285.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM290.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM297.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 IBM420.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8632 Mar 19 17:14 IBM423.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8024 Mar 19 17:14 IBM424.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8312 Mar 19 17:14 IBM437.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 IBM500.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 IBM850.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8248 Mar 19 17:14 IBM851.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8280 Mar 19 17:14 IBM852.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 IBM855.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8600 Mar 19 17:14 IBM856.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 IBM857.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8280 Mar 19 17:14 IBM860.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8312 Mar 19 17:14 IBM861.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8312 Mar 19 17:14 IBM862.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8312 Mar 19 17:14 IBM863.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8280 Mar 19 17:14 IBM864.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8312 Mar 19 17:14 IBM865.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8152 Mar 19 17:14 IBM866.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8280 Mar 19 17:14 IBM868.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 IBM869.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8408 Mar 19 17:14 IBM870.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 IBM871.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM874.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM875.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 IBM880.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7800 Mar 19 17:14 IBM891.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7800 Mar 19 17:14 IBM903.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7832 Mar 19 17:14 IBM904.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8408 Mar 19 17:14 IBM905.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8152 Mar 19 17:14 IBM918.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8408 Mar 19 17:14 IBM922.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       247604 Mar 19 17:14 IBM930.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        66496 Mar 19 17:14 IBM932.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       255584 Mar 19 17:14 IBM933.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       202432 Mar 19 17:14 IBM935.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       256196 Mar 19 17:14 IBM937.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       247572 Mar 19 17:14 IBM939.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        67496 Mar 19 17:14 IBM943.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8216 Mar 19 17:14 IEC_P27-1.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 INIS-8.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 INIS-CYRILLIC.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7896 Mar 19 17:14 INIS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 ISIRI-3342.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_10367-BOX.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        38360 Mar 19 17:14 ISO-2022-CN-EXT.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        28876 Mar 19 17:14 ISO-2022-CN.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        36528 Mar 19 17:14 ISO-2022-JP.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11844 Mar 19 17:14 ISO-2022-KR.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7864 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_2033.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_5427-EXT.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7928 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_5427.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_5428.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18048 Mar 19 17:14 ISO646.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        17752 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_6937-2.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        17496 Mar 19 17:14 ISO_6937.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-10.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-11.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8120 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-13.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-14.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8024 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-15.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15960 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-16.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         6416 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-1.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8344 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-2.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8408 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-3.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8344 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-4.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-5.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9272 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-6.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-7.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8056 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-8.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 ISO8859-9.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 ISO-IR-197.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14680 Mar 19 17:14 JOHAB.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8216 Mar 19 17:14 KOI8-R.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8760 Mar 19 17:14 KOI-8.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 KOI8-U.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 LATIN-GREEK-1.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 LATIN-GREEK.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       157488 Mar 19 17:14 libCNS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        65240 Mar 19 17:14 libGB.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        56220 Mar 19 17:14 libISOIR165.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        98632 Mar 19 17:14 libJIS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        44860 Mar 19 17:14 libKSC.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8248 Mar 19 17:14 MACINTOSH.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8248 Mar 19 17:14 MAC-IS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8088 Mar 19 17:14 MAC-UK.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 NATS-DANO.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7960 Mar 19 17:14 NATS-SEFI.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8184 Mar 19 17:14 SAMI-WS2.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        91064 Mar 19 17:14 SJIS.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        16536 Mar 19 17:14 T.61.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7992 Mar 19 17:14 TIS-620.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        69852 Mar 19 17:14 UHC.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7492 Mar 19 17:14 UNICODE.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10032 Mar 19 17:14 UTF-16.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        22400 Mar 19 17:14 UTF-7.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15544 Mar 19 17:14 VISCII.so

[12] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # objdump -T ./gconv32/ISO8859-1.so

./gconv32/ISO8859-1.so: file format elf32-little

DYNAMIC SYMBOL TABLE:
00000000000000b4 l d .note.ABI-tag 0000000000000000

00000000000000d4 l    d  .hash             0000000000000000
0000000000000234 l    d  .dynsym           0000000000000000
0000000000000544 l    d  .dynstr           0000000000000000
0000000000000682 l    d  .gnu.version            0000000000000000

00000000000006e4 l d .gnu.version_r 0000000000000000

0000000000000734 l    d  .rel.data         0000000000000000
0000000000000744 l    d  .rel.got          0000000000000000
000000000000076c l    d  .rel.plt          0000000000000000
00000000000007cc l    d  .init             0000000000000000
00000000000007e4 l    d  .plt        0000000000000000
00000000000008c0 l    d  .text             0000000000000000
000000000000134c l    d  .fini             0000000000000000
000000000000136a l    d  .rodata           0000000000000000
0000000000002378 l    d  .data             0000000000000000
0000000000002384 l    d  .eh_frame         0000000000000000
0000000000002388 l    d  .ctors            0000000000000000
0000000000002390 l    d  .dtors            0000000000000000
0000000000002398 l    d  .got        0000000000000000
00000000000023e8 l    d  .dynamic          0000000000000000
0000000000002480 l    d  .sbss             0000000000000000
0000000000002480 l    d  .bss        0000000000000000
0000000000000000 l    d  *ABS*             0000000000000000
0000000000000000 l    d  *ABS*             0000000000000000
0000000000000000 l    d  *ABS*             0000000000000000
0000000000000000 l    d  *ABS*             0000000000000000
00000000000023e8 g    DO *ABS*             0000000000000000  Base

_DYNAMIC
0000000000000000 w DF *UND* 0000000000000081 GLIBC_2.0
__register_frame_info
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000038 GLIBC_2.1
_dl_mcount_wrapper_check
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000040 GLIBC_2.1.3
__cxa_atexit
00000000000007cc g DF .init 0000000000000000 Base
_init
0000000000000000 w DF *UND* 00000000000000ac GLIBC_2.0
__deregister_frame_info
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 000000000000032f GLIBC_2.0
__xstat
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 000000000000032f GLIBC_2.0
__fxstat
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 000000000000032f GLIBC_2.0
__lxstat
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000197 GLIBC_2.2
__xstat64
0000000000002480 g DO *ABS* 0000000000000000 Base
__bss_start
000000000000134c g DF .fini 0000000000000000 Base
_fini
0000000000000000 w DF *UND* 000000000000009d GLIBC_2.1.3
__cxa_finalize
00000000000009f4 g DF .text 00000000000000d3 Base
gconv_init
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000197 GLIBC_2.2
__lxstat64
0000000000000ad0 g DF .text 000000000000068b Base
gconv
0000000000002480 g DO *ABS* 0000000000000000 Base
_edata
0000000000002398 g DO *ABS* 0000000000000000 Base
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
00000000000024a0 g DO *ABS* 0000000000000000 Base
_end
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 000000000000007c GLIBC_2.0
__xmknod
0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000197 GLIBC_2.2
__fxstat64
0000000000000000 w D *UND* 0000000000000000
__gmon_start__

[13] /tmp/agar/ftped32 # ./iconvopen.sh
iconv_open() worked.

ILLUSTRATION COMMENTARY
===========
[02]: The directory /tmp/agar/native64 holds the source code and 64-bit binary
of the test program.

[03]: The test program simply tries to call iconv_open() specifying some
common codesets.

[04]: objdump shows the binary is a 64-bit binary.

[05]: The 64-bit binary works.

[07]: The directory /tmp/agar/ftped32 holds the source code and 32-bit binary
of the test program that had been ftp'ed from another machine.

[08]: objdump shows the binary is a 32-bit binary.

[09]: The 32-bit binary fails.

[10]: The shell script sets GCONV_PATH and runs the 32-bit binary.

[11]: The directory the shell script references in its setting of GCONV_PATH
contains the gconv modules I ftp'ed from an i686 system.

[12]: objdump shows one of the gconv binaries is a 32-bit binary.

[13]: When the 32-bit binary test program is run with the 32-bit binary gconv
shared objects, it works.

Eric M. Agar
[email protected]

Eric-

It has always been the case that when running IA32 programs on an IA64 machine the appropriate IA32 shared libraries have to be installed. I'm not familiar with the iconv' package but, from your description, it looks like it requires some special .so's that have IA64 versions installed in standard directories but your RedHat 7.2 IA64 distro doesn't supply IA32 versions.

The simple solution is to copy the necessary IA32 .so's to some directory, add the fully qualified path name for that directory to the file /etc/ld.so.conf' and then execute the program `ldconfig'. After you do those steps your IA32 program should work fine.

PS: I'm a little surprised that your program actually executed and printed out an error message, I would have expected that it wouldn't even load but that's a side issue unrelated to your real problem.

Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
[email protected]
Ph: 303/652-0870x117