Originally posted by: sjwing

gdb fails to load with the following:-

Could not load program gdb:
        Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8) could not be loaded.
        Member libintl.so.8 is not found in archive

oslevel -s
7200-01-03-1720
 

Can someone advise how to resolve this issue

Originally posted by: sangameshm

What version of gettext and gdb is installed ?

And what version of rpm.rte is installed ?

By looking at the error mostly you have older version of gettext which needs to be update to latest one.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: sjwing

rpm.rte is version 3.0.5.53

gdb is version gdb-8.1.1-2

gettext is not installed and when I tried to install this I get the following pre-reqs:-

billing_poc/root> rpm -Uvh gettext-0.19.8.1-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libglib-2.0.a(libglib-2.0.so.0) is needed by gettext-0.19.8.1-3
billing_poc/root> rpm -Uvh glib2-2.56.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        gettext >= 0.17 is needed by glib2-2.56.1-2
        libintl.a(libintl.so.8)   is needed by glib2-2.56.1-2
billing_poc/root>
 

Regards

Originally posted by: sangameshm

I think better here is to configure YUM and install gettext using "yum install gettext" command.

You can setup YUM using yum.sh script.

More information on YUM can be found in this article https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: sjwing

I understand why you suggest to use YUM as it will update and down load all the correct versions of code etc.

But these aix servers are not internet facing and are not allowed to have internet access due to security policies etc.

Is there any other way this can be resolved without YUM.

This seems to be an issue across different versions of aix.

Regards

Originally posted by: sangameshm

There are other ways to setup YUM in this case which is mentioned in the article.

But, at least one machine needs to have access to the internet.

Please go through the article and check if it is feasible in your case.

Anyway, here is the list of dependencies which you need to download manually from https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/aix-toolbox/alpha.html

Since you have AIX7.2 you need to download the ligcc and libstdc++ built for AIX 7.2.

libgcc-8.1.0-2
libstdc++-8.1.0-2
glib2-2.56.1-2
libffi-3.2.1-2
ncurses-6.1-1

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: sjwing

Yum is not an option as none of the aix servers have internet access.

As for the dependencies the only other one I needed was the libstc++ which I have now installed but still the glib2 will not install and the gettext as you can see below:-

billing_poc/root> rpm -Uvh libstdcplusplus-8.1.0-2.aix7.2.ppc.rpm
libstdc++                   ##################################################
billing_poc/root> rpm -Uvh glib2-2.56.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        gettext >= 0.17 is needed by glib2-2.56.1-2
        libintl.a(libintl.so.8)   is needed by glib2-2.56.1-2
billing_poc/root> rpm -Uvh gettext-0.19.8.1-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libglib-2.0.a(libglib-2.0.so.0) is needed by gettext-0.19.8.1-3
billing_poc/root> rpm -qa
expat-2.2.6-1
tcl-8.4.7-3
tk-8.4.7-3
expect-5.42.1-3
gdb-8.1.1-2
libffi-3.2.1-2
AIX-rpm-7.2.2.0-4
ncurses-6.1-1
libgcc-8.1.0-2
libstdc++-8.1.0-2
 

Have you any other suggestions to try and get around this issue

Regards

Originally posted by: sangameshm

You need to provide both the rpms with same command as.

rpm -Uvh glib2-2.56.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm gettext-0.19.8.1-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: sjwing

I have been able to install the glib2 and the gettext but still have the same issue when running the gdb as below:-

billing_poc/root> gdb core
Could not load program gdb:
        Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
Could not load module /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2).
System error: No such file or directory
billing_poc/root> rpm -qa
expect-5.42.1-3.ppc
tk-8.4.7-3.ppc
gdb-8.1.1-2.ppc
libgcc-8.1.0-2.ppc
ncurses-6.1-1.ppc
glib2-2.56.1-2.ppc
tcl-8.4.7-3.ppc
expat-2.2.6-1.ppc
libffi-3.2.1-2.ppc
libstdc++-8.1.0-2.ppc
AIX-rpm-7.2.2.0-5.ppc
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.ppc
 

Regards

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Install libiconv rpm 

Originally posted by: sjwing

Hi

I have now installed the libiconv rpm and the gdb is now working.

Thank you for all your help with this problem

Regards