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Improve the error message when dlopen fails. #5537

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Improve the error message when dlopen fails. #5537

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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion source/main.cc
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Expand Up @@ -289,7 +289,13 @@ void possibly_load_shared_libs (const std::string &parameters)
ExcMessage (std::string("Could not successfully load shared library <")
+ filename + ">. The operating system reports "
+ "that the error is this: <"
+ dlerror() + ">."));
+ dlerror() +
">. Did you call 'cmake' and then compile "
"the plugin library you are trying to load, and did "
"you check the spelling of the library's name? "
"Are you running ASPECT in a directory so that the path "
"to the library in question is as specified in the "
".prm file?"));

// check again whether the list of shared libraries is
// internally consistent or whether we link with both the
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