Why changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no effect in Ubuntu?

Question

I was trying to deploy my application on Ubuntu 16.04. So i made a package with the following hierarchy -

Package
|
----bin
    |
    -----application
    -----application.sh
    -----Qt
         |
         -----necessary qt libraries
         -----platforms

Here is the application.sh file -

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/Qt
./application

When i execute the application.sh file, it shows me that it cant find the libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so.5 file. But its in the Qt folder. Also when i print the ldd application from the application.sh file after exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH it gives me following output -

Please check the marked parts. Can anyone please explain why the libraries from the Qt folder are not found even after exporting the LD_LIBARRY_PATH?

Edit:

So as suggested by @Zang, i have checked the debug log and here it is -

Please check the marked parts.

It seems like its actually trying the actual libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so and then report that its unable to find it. Can anyone please help me understand whats happening here?

Edit-2: As per suggestion from @Tarun, i have ran ls -al on my Qt folder. Here is the output -

@ZangMingJie I have done that and added some info regarding that in Edit. Could you please check? — Rasheduzzaman Sourov, Dec 06 '17 at 20:46
Are you mixing 32bit and 64bit builds? Check the so file architecture. — Zang MingJie, Dec 06 '17 at 21:04
Possible that some kind of permission issue? Can you do `ls -al ` and see what happens? — Tarun Lalwani, Dec 10 '17 at 06:16
@TarunLalwani I have done that. Please check the edit-2. I am not sure about the result. — Rasheduzzaman Sourov, Dec 10 '17 at 11:41
I don't see the actual file there? The soft link points to a file in same folder and I don't see that file — Tarun Lalwani, Dec 10 '17 at 11:56
Yeah got that. Can you add this as an answer so that i can select as a right answer? — Rasheduzzaman Sourov, Dec 10 '17 at 12:18

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 12:38

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All files in Your Qt directory are actually simlinks to non-existing files in the same directory, therefore they cannot be found.

answered Dec 14 '17 at 12:38

Linards Kalvans

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '17 at 21:21

First

Could it be that the pwd is not where you assume it is?

You could try adding

# Figure out where the application.sh script is located
scriptpath="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P )"
# Make sure our pwd is that location
cd  "$scriptpath"

in the top of your script (assumes bash shell, from here)

By doing this all relative paths to Qt folder will be valid.

Second

Maybe you should considder exporting your new LD_LIBRARY_PATH, like so (from here):

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=whatever
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Third

It may be useful to run ldconfig command for ld to update after changing the variable (from here):

sudo ldconfig

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '17 at 05:20

If you look at the output of your ls -al

These are soft links that you have. Your softlink libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so.5 points to libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so.5.9.2 in the same directory and the file is not there at all. So you need to either set the correct softlink path or have the file in same directory

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 16 '17 at 05:01

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The file libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so is not present in /Desktop/package/bin/Qt according to the screenshots shown.

edited Dec 16 '17 at 05:01

Nigam Patro

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answered Dec 16 '17 at 02:34

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Why changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no effect in Ubuntu?

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