> Thanks for the information. So shared libraries won't work with my version.. 
> so I thought I would compile the X application using -static. Everything
> compiles but then I when I try to start the application, I get
> 
> Error: Could not open display :0.0

This appears to be an incompatability between NetBSD-current (and
0.9?) and the distributed static libs for XFree86-2.0.  Igot exactly
this result - which was one reason I was quick to try the shared libs
which worked.  I'm running the Nov-20 version.

--sjg


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