Installation problems on RedHatEnt6

Hi,

Got a bit of a weird problem which I can’t pin down. I’m trying to set up sharp on Red Hat Enterprise 6 but can’t get node to start the app. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

> node app.js 

module.js:356
  Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
                               ^
Error: libvips.so.38: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/testapp/node_modules/sharp/index.js:5:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

The strange thing is libvips.so.38 is exactly where I would expect it to be, /usr/local/lib.

libvips was compiled from source. A few things I’ve checked.

ls -la
total 52380
drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 .
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root     4096 Aug 13 12:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 gio
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 glib-2.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1080 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       22 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so -> libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       22 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so.0 -> libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  6132519 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root      956 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       23 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       23 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  3740140 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1009 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so -> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 -> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root    39211 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1010 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so.0 -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  1205231 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1004 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so -> libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so.0 -> libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     8977 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 27535512 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.a
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  2522104 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.a
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1071 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       19 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so -> libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       19 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so.38 -> libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  1034249 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1031 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       17 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so -> libvips.so.38.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       17 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so.38 -> libvips.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root 11349279 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so.38.0.3
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 pkgconfig

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/lib/

echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

pkg-config --cflags vips
-pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libpng12

pkg-config --libs vips
-pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -lvips -lz -lm -lstdc++ -lxml2 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lpng12 -lglib-2.0  

[lovell]

Adding --prefix=/usr when running configure should also prevent this problem.

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug=no ...

[lovell]

Hi @bedrocktv please can you open a new issue with the output from running steps 3 and 4.