i dont have a libxforms.so.0.?? i have a libforms.so.0.??
there is no libxforms.a, only a libforms.a.
also, lyx has problems compliling with 86, so installed 81...but the 
problem with libforms.so.0.86 still occurs.
-xiamin

On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Nico van Eikema Hommes wrote:

>     Hi,
> 
> >i jsut compiled and installed LyX, with no problems, when i goto run it,
> >i get this:
> >pork% lyx &
> >[1] 3577
> >pork% /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_glXMakeCurrent" in
> >lyx:/usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.86
> >anyone know what this is?
> 
> Last week, I ran into the same problem. Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
> answered:
> >It's a bug in 0.86 of the shared library.  You can extract the modules from
> >the .a file, and rebuild the shared lib w/o gl.o, and the problem
> >goes away.
> You need to do an "ar d libxforms.a gl.o", followed by a "ranlib libforms.a",
> and follow the last couple of lines of xforms/mkconfig.h to generate a new
> libxforms.so.0.86. Then do a "make install" and it should work.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
>           Nico
> 
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