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   On 2025-04-21 09:14, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >   
   > I can’t 100% rule out other possibilities, but the answer in this case   
   > is almost certainly a missing runtime linker, which was my first   
   > suggestion. The failure of ldd mention in another post supports this,   
   > given the rather bizarre way ldd works.   
   >   
   > Concrete suggestions:   
   >   
   > 1) Review the origin of these executables. Perhaps there is some   
   >     information about their dependencies there. I already suggested this   
   >     but there doesn’t seem to have been any followup.   
      
   It's actually rather complicated, so I tried the simpler suggestions   
   from Theo first ...   
      
   Entware are a tolerably well-known set of utilities written for a   
   variety of embedded systems:   
      
   https://github.com/entware/entware/wiki/Install-on-QNAP-NAS   
      
   However, neither they, nor Perl which is the real destination in my   
   case, are supported on the most recent versions of the firmware for this   
   NAS, so I've downgraded it to the last previous major version.  Now Perl   
   is installed, but I need a 'make' command to be able to use CPAN, and   
   Entware seems to be the only possible source for this.  However, the   
   latest versions of that don't seem to install properly, opening the qpkg   
   file in 7-zip doesn't find any executable utility files, though there is   
   a blob which might contain them, but, after the package has been   
   installed apparently successfully, there is no findable folder   
   containing the usual utility execs.  So instead I simply copied in the   
   files from a previous attempt to install it dating from soon after my   
   purchase of the NAS about five years ago.   
      
   > 2) Run   
   >       file /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Entware/bin/gcc   
   >     to find out what kind of executable they are.   
      
   [USER@NASNAME ~]# file /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Entware/bin/gcc   
   -sh: file: command not found   
   [USER@NASNAME ~]# which file   
   [USER@NASNAME ~]#   
      
   I believe there is some sort of QNAP development package for those who   
   want to write stuff to run on QNAP NASs, which, based on my experience   
   of customising Zyxel NAS firmware, is a potentially long and rocky road   
   I was hoping to avoid, but it seems I am fated to travel it if I want to   
   run GetIPlayer on the thing.  It's damned annoying, the latest firmware   
   has, official from QNAP IIRC, Python packages, but not Perl, and GiP is   
   written in Perl, so, unless I can find an installable and functional   
   'make' command to allow me to install the required CPAN modules, I'm   
   stuffed.   
      
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