XAMPP 1.8.3+ on 5.x/x86_64

[dentonlt]

Anyone tried this on pure64, and/or had luck? I can't get the xampp installer to run - it chokes at startup and returns 127.

It's a static executable, so I don't see how it could be missing a lib/dep.

Other ideas for figuring out why this doesn't work? There have to be some other tests I can run. I'm searching the apachfriends forums, too ...

FWIW, the 32bit installer seems to run/work on TC 5.x/32.

[Juanito]

Does it expect things to be in /lib64, /usr/lib64, /usr/local/lib64?

[dentonlt]

Good question. Providing symlinks doesn't help, though. =/

[Rich]

Hi dentonlt
If 127 is all the information it provides for an error message, you could try running  strace  on it to see what it's choking on.

[curaga]

It's a statically linked binary, but against glibc, and it tries to dynamically open the nss libs. This fails because it expects the linker in /lib64, ie it was built on a multilib system. Confirmed by strace.

sudo ln -s /lib /lib64

edit: Could also be produced via some weird method, such that it's really dynamic, not static.

[dentonlt]

Thanks curaga, Rich, juanito. I clearly must have done something wrong when I tried creating the symlinks, above. All working now!

EDIT: If you're going to go down this path, you'll also need:
bash.tcz
create a system group called 'daemon'
create a 2 system users: 'mysql' and 'daemon'
create the link suggested above (/lib64 -> /lib)

Then run the installer with sudo. As an alternative to manually creating the users, create a couple of scripts (useradd & groupadd) that pass their args to busybox. You'll need to change '-r' parameter to '-S' for the busybox utils, though.