GIT issue in AIX 6.1

UNIX AIX
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Hello,

I recently installed GIT 1.8.1 on my AIX 6.1 machine referring to AIX Open Source Packages | Main / git website and am facing a few issues with it.

Now if I login as root and issue git commands like git --version I get the response as shown :

git version 1.8.1

And I have tried creating repositories as root too and it works fine.

Now If I login as just a normal user and if I issue the version command : git --version I am getting the response as :

genuser:stud:/students/admin> git --version
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program git because of the following errors:
        0509-150   Dependent module /usr/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
        0509-152   Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive

Now how come its working with root user and not working with normal user.

But If I issue man git command in normal user I'm getting the manual for git but the rest of the commands give the above error.

How can I fix this.

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u need to install the libiconv package supported by this version

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@Syed Imran: I installed the rpm package which was recomended.
Somehow this is able to work perfectly when I login as root.

BTW I noticed that the file libiconv.so.2 file is present in /opt/pvcs813/vm/common/lib/linux/libiconv.so.2 location.

I tried to create a soft link too as follows which gives the following error.

root:user-> $ ln -s /usr/lib/libiconv.so.2 /opt/pvcs813/vm/common/lib/linux/libiconv.so.2
ln: 0653-421 /opt/pvcs813/vm/common/lib/linux/libiconv.so.2 exists.
    Specify -f to remove /opt/pvcs813/vm/common/lib/linux/libiconv.so.2 before linking.

When the initial error says that 0509-152 Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive where does it expect the file libiconv.so.2 to be in.

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The "ln" command failed because you have to put it the other way round:

ln -s <existing file> <link to create>

But this is not really the problem. The error you get as a normal user says it can't find the library in "/usr/lib" and this is conceivable because it is somewhere else. Instead of softlinking it you should consider modifying the "LIBPATH" and/or "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to make it found. Issue "set" as root and you might see it is set to some value.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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@bakunin: Thanks a lot.That was the issue.
Now works perfectly after settting the LIBPATH variable.