[Openexr-devel] Baffling Runtime Error: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Douglass Turner]

Hello,

I'm trying to link OpenEXR into my rendering app and am pulling my hair out over a maddening runtime error.

My setup is pretty vanilla: 
Linux fedora 
2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 

My C++ development environment is Eclipse.

I ran ./configure --disable-threading when building openexr.

I used pkg-config --cflags and pkg-config --libs to determine compile flags and libraries to link.

The Eclipse build works just fine.

At runtime I get this error:
error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This makes no sense because of:

<132>[lib]% cd /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib

<133>[lib]% ls -alF libIlmImf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7044430 Feb 24 10:58 libIlmImf.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     908 Feb 24 10:58 libIlmImf.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 Feb 24 10:58 libIlmImf.so -> libIlmImf.so.4.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 Feb 24 10:58 
libIlmImf.so.4 -> libIlmImf.so.4.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3774902 Feb 24 10:58 libIlmImf.so.4.0.0*

Can someone please, please help be out. Thanks.

Regards,
Doug