Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:
The following happened to Johannes Waldmann as trying to run yi, which embeds the GHC api to dynamically load code.
waldmann@afa:~> yi yi: can't load .so/.DLL for: pthread (/usr/lib/libpthread.so: invalid ELF header)
The error doesn't happen on my system (ubuntu feisty); despite my having the exact same /usr/lib/libpthread.so
/usr/lib/libpthread.so is usually a linker script, i.e. a small text file with instructions for the linker, rather than an ELF shared object. It looks like the dynamic linker is choking on it in your case, I don't know why. This is really out of our hands; we just pass the filename of the .so to the system linker via dlopen(), so perhaps your version of ld.so can't handle linker scripts? Cheers, Simon