Maan AlFudhail wrote:
> Every time that I tried to run fvwm I get this error:
>
> ld.so.1: fvwm: fatal: libXext.so.6.3: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> Killed
>
> However the file does exist in the X11 dir. Does fvwm has some
> assumption about the location of X11? Are all X11 distribution has the
> same structure? How do I till fvwm that the file does exist in
> /usr/local/X11?
Well, I can only speak for SunOS/Solaris, but when linking proggies,
runtime libraries' locations *are* held in the exe. If said .so file
doesn't exist at runtime, the runtime linker runs through the directories
specified in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (although I think there's another one as well
that's runtime only - this one affects the functioning of ld as well ...
plus ISTRT it's possible to embed a search path in the exe at link time on
top of that).
Anyway, the upshot is: make sure your X lib directory in somewhere in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running fvwm2. To test whether it *will* work, use
'ldd exename', which'll list the runtime libraries required by the prog. &
whether they can be found in the current envorinment.
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Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 02:54:16 BST