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Re: [tor-bugs] #3841 [Tor bundles/installation]: Linux TBB should better detect wrong 32-bit vs 64-bit choice



#3841: Linux TBB should better detect wrong 32-bit vs 64-bit choice
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 Reporter:  arma                      |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
 Keywords:                            |         Parent:       
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:       
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [ticket:3841 arma]:
 > I ran the 686 TBB (1.1.14-dev) on my 64-bit wheezy/sid, and got
 > {{{
 > arma@last-request:/tmp/tor-browser_en-US$ ./start-tor-browser
 >
 > Launching Tor Browser Bundle for Linux in /tmp/tor-browser_en-US
 > ./App/vidalia: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6:
 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 > Vidalia exited abnormally.  Exit code: 127
 > }}}
 >
 > It seems we should do some sort of detection if somebody has picked the
 wrong arch, and tell them that rather than a cryptic lib failure?

 The easy way to do this is to:
  * ship two copies of a tiny C program, one compiled for IA-32 and the
 other for AMD64, which simply `dlopen`s a shared library name specified on
 the command line and returns an exit code indicating success or failure;
  * ship a complete list of the libraries that each architecture's TBB
 requires;
  * in the launcher script, check whether the shared library test-loader
 for its bundle's architecture can load its bundle's required libraries;
  * if the required libraries are not available, check whether the shared
 library test-loader for the other architecture can load (more of) that
 architecture's required libraries, and if so, tell the user to try the
 other TBB;
  * otherwise, complain to the user that TBB needs some libraries
 installed, and list them.

 The even easier way to do this is to check the output of `uname -m`, but
 that would do the wrong thing on a system with a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit
 userland.

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