[GRASSLIST:5722] Re: mpeg_encode: can't load dynamic linker

[Dylan Beaudette]

I use the following mpeg program for all of my encoding:

 mpeg2encode / mpeg2decode
                          =========================
              MPEG-2 Encoder / Decoder, Version 1.2, July 19, 1996

                             Copyright (c) 1996
                        MPEG Software Simulation Group

                     E-mail:   mssg at mpeg.org  (author contact)
                     Web:      http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/
                     FTP:      ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/



-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341

On Thursday 10 February 2005 12:53 pm, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> so,
> there was an bug (I suppose so) in mpeg_encode source. Now it runs. I have
> reported to author, but the source code is from 29.11.1995, so I don't
> know, if anyone will read it.
>
> For those of you, who want to compile mpeg_encode:
>
> 1) download the file mpeg_encode-1.5b-patched-src.tar.gz from
>     ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/encode/
>
> 2) edit the file libpnmrw.c, comment the line no. 129 out
>     /*extern char* sys_errlist[];*/
>
> 3) run "make", it worked by me.
>
> Jáchym
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:07:31PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> > > I wanted to produce some mpeg movie with NVIZ, but the mpeg_encode
> > > says:
> > >
> > >     /mpeg_encode: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so'
> >
> > That suggests that your mpeg_encode executable was built for a
> > relativly old Linux distribution (i.e. one which uses libc5, maybe
> > even libc4).
> >
> > It might be possible to get it to run by installing some kind of
> > "compat" package.
> >
> > Or it may not, depending on just how old the mpeg_encode binary is.
> >
> > > I tryed to make the symlink (/lib/ld.so -> ld-2.3.2.so), but it didn't
> > > help.
> >
> > It won't. ld-2.3.2.so is the glibc-2 (aka. libc6) loader; it isn't
> > compatible with older versions of libc.
> >
> > --
> > Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>