[cffi-devel] how to debug CFFI:LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:18:41AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After recently upgrading my Cairo deb packages, I am getting this
>error message when tryign to load the library via CFFI:
>
>Unable to load foreign library (NIL).
>  Error opening shared object "libcairo.so":
>  /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined symbol: pixman_format_supported_destination.

perhaps you're missing libpixman, or you have an old version: on my system
libcairo.so is linked to /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 which contains that
symbol.
To view the list of ELF symbols in a library you can use objdump -T

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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