error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file:

Question

I'm using libevent for a program, I compile my program on two computers A and B, on A the execution is successful, but on B I got the following errors:

error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

FYI:

A and B are with fedora system, on both A and B, I downloaded libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz, and install it through configure/make/make install.

on A

    [esolve@kitty temp]$ uname -r
    3.6.10-2.fc16.x86_64
    [esolve@kitty temp]$ ls -al /usr/local/lib64 | grep libevent
    [esolve@kitty temp]$ ls -al /usr/lib64 | grep libevent
    [esolve@kitty temp]$ ls -al /usr/lib | grep libevent
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       32 May 21 00:25 libevent-1.4.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2
    [esolve@kitty temp]$ ls -al /usr/local/lib | grep libevent
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     21 May 21 00:22 libevent-1.4.so.2 -> libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 435304 May 21 00:22 libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 793178 May 21 00:22 libevent.a
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     26 May 21 00:22 libevent_core-1.4.so.2 -> libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 160352 May 21 00:22 libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 269580 May 21 00:22 libevent_core.a
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    988 May 21 00:22 libevent_core.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     26 May 21 00:22 libevent_core.so -> libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 May 21 00:22 libevent_extra-1.4.so.2 -> libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 342122 May 21 00:22 libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 631804 May 21 00:22 libevent_extra.a
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    995 May 21 00:22 libevent_extra.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 May 21 00:22 libevent_extra.so -> libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    953 May 21 00:22 libevent.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     21 May 21 00:22 libevent.so -> libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0

on B:

    root@kitch server_agent]# uname -r
    3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64
    [root@kitch server_agent]# ls -al /usr/lib | grep libevent
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      32 Jun 14 17:09 libevent-1.4.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2
    [root@kitch server_agent]# ls -al /usr/local/lib | grep libevent
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     21 Jun 14 16:03 libevent-1.4.so.2 -> libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 435524 Jun 14 16:03 libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 805650 Jun 14 16:03 libevent.a
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     26 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_core-1.4.so.2 -> libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 164070 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 270748 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_core.a
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    994 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_core.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     26 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_core.so -> libevent_core-1.4.so.2.2.0
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_extra-1.4.so.2 -> libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 339502 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rw-r--r--   1 root root 642916 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_extra.a
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   1001 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_extra.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     27 Jun 14 16:03 libevent_extra.so -> libevent_extra-1.4.so.2.2.0
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    959 Jun 14 16:03 libevent.la
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     21 Jun 14 16:03 libevent.so -> libevent-1.4.so.2.2.0
    [root@kitch server_agent]# ls -al /usr/lib64 | grep libevent
    [root@kitch server_agent]# ls -al /usr/local/lib64 | grep libevent

why my program get this error on B and are there any solutions? thanks!

Answer 1

Your "A" system has a symlink from /usr/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2 to /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2 but system "B" does not. Chances are, if you create it then everything will start working.

The command should be as follows.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2 /usr/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2

As an alternative, you can add /usr/local/lib to your library path as a test by exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib as a temporary fix on system "B".