New XFree86 library problems.

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Thu Dec 4 07:44:40 PST 2003


Peter Kadau <peter.kadau at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi !

>> getting errors when trying to run binaries built against X libraries.
> Whoo, I couldn't even build them on my shiny new system
> out of the box.
> But cpdup is your friend for now.

> If some program complains it can't find libfoo, look
> whether libfoo is in /usr/local/lib or /usr/X11R6/lib
> and cpdup it to the other.
> No fix, but it works.

Well, I certainly no how to work around this.  It's simply a matter of
symlinking libXi.so.6.0 to libXi.so.6 (and so on for the other
libraries).  I just wanted to report this so it can be fixed in the
dfports tree :-)

Adam






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