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Hi,

This is a new problem that I have since few days back. I have a CVS working on HP Unix, which apparently needs libz.so. Suddenly this libz.so seems to be missing.

$ cvs
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libz.so'.
Killed

almost like the file disappeared from the location. Previously this was working without any issues.

What is this file and how can I restore it back?

Any help is highly appreciated

Thanks in advance

what does

Code:

find /lib -name 'libz*' -exec ls -l {} \;

show?

nothing is returned when this command is executed

Then for some reason you really are missing that library. Did you just port the code from one machine to another.

The file may be somewhere else

Code:

find / -name 'libz*' -exec ls -l {} \;  2>/dev/null

If it shows up you can use SHLIB_PATH envrionment variable to point to it. I would suspect this means something clobbered your SHLIB_PATH variable, which broke your code. Show your output please.