uninitialized values

[Toby Johnson]

Dirk wrote:
> Eli Carter schrieb:
>> On Monday 22 January 2007 11:32 am, Dirk wrote:
>>  
>>>> Huh.  I just did a re-build, and it seems to be working.  Ok, chalk 
>>>> one uto       user error.  Sorry for the noise.
>>>>         
>>> No problem. After several years of working, I came across a lot of 
>>> situations where we debugged like crazy, involved other people and 
>>> finally a rebuild solved all issues ;-) And I still step into the 
>>> same pitfall over and over again.
>>>     
>>
>> Second user error: testing on two different machines.
>>
>> Here's the real problem:
>> ./ssphys --version
>> ./ssphys: error while loading shared libraries: 
>> libboost_filesystem.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such 
>> file or directory
>>
>> So, if ssphys fails to run, it complains about the version of ssphys, 
>> rather than complaining that it failed to run.  A more accurate error 
>> message would be preferred.
>>   
> Good point, indeed. A programmer error. I thought about adding some 
> code to check whether ssphys failed to start for some reason. But 
> since I'm not a perl expert, I failed in my attempts. So probably this 
> is a task for Toby ;-)

OK, I'll set up an issue for this; I'm assuming this is possible by 
checking the return value of the system() call. Please try to copy in 
the mailing list on these issues if possible, thanks!

toby