[Zope-dev] Re: Zope on OpenBSD 2.8 makes me cry

[Alexander Limi]

andrew fabbro afabbro@indoctrination.com wrote:

> I'm pulling out my hair trying to get Zope working on OpenBSD 2.8.  I



I'll repeat my original post, and the 2.7 libc can be found at
http://mp3.no/openbsd/libc_r.so.3.0 (not indefinitely, though)

I hope the file is OK, I have a shitty connection at the moment, and I
haven't got the time to verify it right now.

(from http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2001-January/009137.html)

For those of you wishing to run Zope on OpenBSD 2.8, here is a solution. The
reason Zope doesn't work in the first place is a thread bug in the OpenBSD
2.8
release version. The solution is to use the libc_r from OpenBSD 2.7 for the
Zope instance.

Thanks to Jason Ish for the howto, I thought I would rewrite it to be more
generic and post it to the lists.

So, here we go:

Python on OpenBSD 2.8 uses /usr/lib/libc_r.so.3.1.

libc_r.so.3.1 is from 2.8, libc_r.so.3.0 is from 2.7 and will work.

So what we do is to copy the old libc file (if you don't have it, mail me
and I'll send it to you) into a directory in the Zope install dir, and add
that to the path. Then we rename the old file so the system thinks it is the
curent version.

In this example, I assume your Zope install is in /usr/local/zope.

First, we copy the old library into our Zope dir, and rename it:

cp /usr/lib/libc_r.so.3.0 /usr/local/zope/libc_r.so.3.1

Then you should add something like this to the top of your "start" script:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/zope

Start Zope, and you will find that it works fine now. Zope also works fine
in the CURRENT tree of OpenBSD, so presumably it will work out-of-the-box on
OpenBSD 2.9. This is the safest way of getting it to work at the moment.

Happy OpenBSD'ing :)


-- Alexander Limi
   alexander@limi.net