Error in loading the shared object

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Ashish Srivastava writes:
 > Hi,
 >    I created a shared object using gcj (gcc 3.2.1) and
 > loaded it in the intialization configuration files of
 > the web server. I got the  following exception while
 > restarting the server (and loading the conf files) :
 > 
 > Configuration initialization failed: Error running
 > init function load-modules: dlopen of ~/xyz/libA.so
 > failed (ld.so.1: ns-httpd: fatal: relocation error:
 > file ~/xyz/libA.so: symbol
 > _Jv_ThrowNullPointerException: referenced symbol not
 > found)
 > 
 > where libA.so is the object created. The java class is
 > simple and something like :
 > 
 > public class A {
 >   public void do_something() {
 >     System.out.println("Say something");
 >   }
 > }
 > 
 > I am not sure what the error thrown really indicates.

It means that libgc.so is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Andrew.