[Mapserver-users] tip for frustrated debianers

[Till Adams]

Dear list,

we just want to post the answer to our question we've posted friday 
afternoon (see below):

We thought it has to do with some libraries which are not found. So we 
ran "path-to-cgi/cgi-bin/ldd mapserv" and looked at the pathes to the 
linked libraries - most of them pointed to "/usr/lib" or /lib".

So we added "/usr/lib" and "/lib" to the file "/etc/ld.so.conf" and run 
"/sbin/ldconfig" but nothing happended. Somewhere on this brillant list 
we found a hint from Daniel Morissette to add "/usr/local/bin" although 
there are definetely no libaries linked to.
Anyway: We added the path "/usr/local/bin" to ld.so.conf and reran 
"/sbin/ldconfig" and now everything works fine ...

;-) good start for a monday morning...

Till & Ben & Lars

 > Dear list,
 >
 > we have just setup our new machine with DebianWoody. Compiling the
 > mapserver (after seeing that we have to apt the dev-versions of all
 > libs) was great fun - it took about 10 minutes :-) Never did this
 > before in that time.
 >
 > Copying the mapserv-binary to the /cgi-bin and make the test
 > "<myURL>/cgi-bin/mapserv" works fine. Also the mapserv -v on the command
 > line works fine. But not when running a mapserv-application. The apache
 > error log says "Premature end of... blablabla"
 >
 > I searched the archive and found 443 threads with "premature" and I'm
 > sure I tried everything >>> editing ld.so.conf (adding /usr + /usr/lib +
 > /usr/local/lib, /lib, ...), running ldconfig, adding
 >   SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/lib" (and the rest)
 >   PassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 >
 > to my httpd.conf, making sure that mod_env is loaded and my image-temp
 > paths are correct, drinking beer, whisky and wine ... I HAVE NO MORE
 > IDEAS !!!!
 >
 > Please help me otherwise I'll kick this brandnew machine out of our
 > office!!!!!
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 > Till & Ben & Lars