Re: FVWM: Silent fail!

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:00:45 -0400

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D.Kennedy_at_queens-belfast.ac.uk (David Kennedy) writes:
> Hi, after a little debacle getting FVWM compiled I sat down
> to enjoy using it again...only to log in and have the
> computer log me out. I presume FVWM is crashing out straight
> away...check my errors file:
>
> ld.so.1: /home7/dcjk/bin/fvwm: fatal: libXpm.so.4.8: can't open file: errno=2
>

You may need to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the directory that
contains the xpm library. For example, my setting:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/xpm/lib:/usr/ucblib

> Aha! I recently (since last time I used Fvwm) got new Xpm libraries.
>
> So, this is Fvwm 2.0.42, on Solaris 2.5 - how do I go about fixing this
> problem...indeed, in plain speak, what *is* the problem?
>
> Other programs like the Xpm libs fine, I'm not sure where the error lies.
>
> (Usually recompiling Fvwm is trivial!)
> --
> David Kennedy, Dept. of Pure & Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast
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> Email: D.Kennedy_at_Queens-Belfast.ac.uk | URL: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~dcjk/
>
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Received on Wed May 01 1996 - 07:58:01 BST

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