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[Ronald Charlton]

I have compiled my shared libraries that I used under PGI 6 with PGI 7.

The debugger will not load the libraries using the version 7 debugger. I receive an error message "Dynamic Library Load address should not be null" in the command window.

I created a very simple library that adds two numbers:

addtwo.f90

subroutine addtwo(ine,two, results)
real :: one, two, results

results = one + two

return

end

I created a simple main program tester.f90

program tester

real: three, four, five

three = 2.5
four = 2.45

call addtwo(three, four, five)

write (*, '(A, 3(F8.4))') 'this is a simple test: ', three four, five

stop

end

I compile the library:

pgf90 -g -c -fpic addtwo.f90

pgf90 -o lib.addtwo.so -shared addtwo.o

I compile the program:

pgf90 -o tester -g tester.f90 lib.addtwo.so

I move the .so file into a local directory I have included in LD_LIBRARY_PATH

The program runs without error.

when I start pgdbg the main program loads. I set a breakpoint and click run.

The program exits with a mesage of : dynamic load address shoudl not be null in the command window, and a message of lib.addtwo.so cannot be loaded, file not found.

I do not have this problem when running pgdbg 6.

Any help would be appreciated.

[mkcolg]

Hi Ronald,

Thanks for the report. I have sent a technical problem report (TPR#15170) to our tools team for further investigation. I have my ideas as to the problem, but will let them look into it further and will update this post when more information becomes available.

Note I was able to read the shared object when it was located in the same directory where it was built. Hopefully you can use this as a work around until the problem is resolved.

Best Regards,
Mat

[Ronald Charlton]

I had the library in both locations t the same time when I ran this test, but I will check this again.

I will also try this with my application as well to see if this helps.

Thanks

Ron

[Ronald Charlton]

I have tried this again and with or without the shared library in the sorking directory, the debugger does not find it.

I am running 7.1-6 I believe. Perhaps this is a difference between 7.1 and 7.2?

[mkcolg]

Most likely Our tools team have fixed some issue with debugging shared objects but obviously have a few more issues to address.

- Mat