[sldev] zlib patch for Snowglobe 1.0 (Re: Question about Snowglobe binaries)

[Rob Lanphier]

I just filed the libz issue here:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-32

...along with the patch we're probably going to apply today for a second
release candidate (RC1)

Rob

On 06/17/2009 10:22 PM, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> Thanks for the hint Rob. Here's what I had to do to get Snowglobe to
> start up:
>
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libz.so.1.2.3.3 /usr/lib32/libz.so
>
> Also in Snowglobe-i686-0.9.0.2423/lib/ there was a circular reference
> for libuuid.so.1 so I deleted it and copied libuuid.so.1
> from SecondLife-i686-1.23.4.123908/lib/
>
> And now I'm happy that bump maps appear to be working in this version :)
>
> Regards,
> -Dahlia
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com
> <mailto:robla at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>     Here's what worked on my Jaunty 64-bit system:
>     * Make sure lib32z1 is installed
>     * cd /usr/lib32/
>     * sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 libz.so.1
>
>     After that, Snowglobe-y goodness.
>
>     Someone willing to submit a patch to Snowglobe to make sure we link to
>     the right library without resorting to a symlink?
>
>     See here for more about supporting Linux 64-bit:
>     https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13793
>
>     Rob
>
>     On 06/17/2009 06:02 PM, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>     > I've been using Snowglobe "Second Life 1.23.2 (2324) May 27 2009
>     > 15:18:08 (Second Life OSS)" on my Ubuntu 8.04 x64 system but
>     I've had
>     > difficulties with bump maps not working so I thought I'd try a newer
>     > version.
>     >
>     > I downloaded a newer linux build from this page:
>     >
>     https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev-commits/2009-June/002823.html
>     and
>     > I get the following error when I try to execute it:
>     >
>     > Secondlife/Snowglobe-i686-0.9.0.2418
>     > bin/snowglobe-do-not-run-directly: error while loading shared
>     > libraries: libz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>     > directory
>     > *** Bad shutdown. ***
>     > According to aptitude, the libz I'm using is the most recent for my
>     > distribution. Here is a listing of the relevant files:
>     >
>     > root at nkubuntu:/usr/lib <mailto:root at nkubuntu
>     <mailto:root at nkubuntu>:/usr/lib># ls -al libz.s*
>     > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2008-07-29 21:59 libz.so ->
>     libz.so.1.2.3.3
>     > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2008-07-28 16:50 libz.so.1 ->
>     libz.so.1.2.3.3
>     > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93536 2007-11-15 05:12 libz.so.1.2.3.3
>     >
>     > Is there some other libz I would need to run these executables,
>     > hopefully one which would be compatible with other
>     > applications/libraries on my system? Or are there plans to
>     distribute
>     > recent binaries which would run in the same environments as the
>     > production SL viewers?
>     >
>     > Also a suggestion: please consider offering 64 bit binaries :)
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > -Dahlia
>     >
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