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* bug#32995: Executing pre-compiled binaries
@ 2018-10-09  4:40 Brett Gilio
  2018-10-09  4:51 ` Brett Gilio
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brett Gilio @ 2018-10-09  4:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 32995

Hi all, I am having an issue with trying to execute literally any
pre-compiled binary files. One example is Telegram. Here is what 
is
happening.

brettg@oryxpro ~$ cd Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram/
brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ls
Telegram  Updater
brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ./Telegram 
bash: ./Telegram: No such file or directory
brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$

Any ideas?


-- 
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
https://gnu.org/s/guix/ | https://emacs.org

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* bug#32995: Executing pre-compiled binaries
  2018-10-09  4:40 bug#32995: Executing pre-compiled binaries Brett Gilio
@ 2018-10-09  4:51 ` Brett Gilio
  2018-10-09 13:02   ` Ricardo Wurmus
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brett Gilio @ 2018-10-09  4:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Brett Gilio; +Cc: 32995


Brett Gilio writes:

> Hi all, I am having an issue with trying to execute literally 
> any
> pre-compiled binary files. One example is Telegram. Here is what 
> is
> happening.
>
> brettg@oryxpro ~$ cd Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram/
> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ls
> Telegram  Updater
> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ./Telegram 
> bash: ./Telegram:
> No such file or directory
> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$
>
> Any ideas?

Also, in the strings evaluation of the binary I am getting 
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

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* bug#32995: Executing pre-compiled binaries
  2018-10-09  4:51 ` Brett Gilio
@ 2018-10-09 13:02   ` Ricardo Wurmus
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2018-10-09 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Brett Gilio; +Cc: 32995-done


Hi Brett,

> Brett Gilio writes:
>
>> Hi all, I am having an issue with trying to execute literally any
>> pre-compiled binary files. One example is Telegram. Here is what is
>> happening.
>>
>> brettg@oryxpro ~$ cd Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram/
>> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ls
>> Telegram  Updater
>> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$ ./Telegram bash:
>> ./Telegram:
>> No such file or directory
>> brettg@oryxpro ~/Downloads/tsetup.1.4.0/Telegram$
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Also, in the strings evaluation of the binary I am getting
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

This is the dynamic linker/loader.  It is provided by the GNU C library.
The best approach is to avoid this problem and build the programme from
source.

Any other approach is really just a hack.  Possible hacks are:

1. symlink the dynamic linker/loader from glibc to the expected
location.

2. use “patchelf” to replace the reference to the linker on an FHS
system with a reference to the linker from our glibc.

This would only be the first step.  Binaries built and linked elsewhere
are probably also going to have problems finding libraries.  Here you
would have to mess with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to satisfy these requirements.
I suggest not going down this road and packaging the software instead.

Since we don’t support the execution of pre-built binaries on Guix I’m
closing the bug report, but I hope my comments have been helpful in your
case.

--
Ricardo

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