Subject: Re: 1.4.2 to 1.5_BETA and library problems
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/04/2000 17:43:42
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > The real question is, why it's using static libXt.a instead of the
> > > shared libXt.so. What does "file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.*" say?
> > 
> > $ file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.* 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a:      current ar archive
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6:   symbolic link to libXt.so.6.0
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
> > version 1, not stripped
> 
> You're missing the symlink "libXt.so -> libXt.so.6.0", and /emul/aout
> isn't supposed to have any symlinks at all. Try fixing all that ("cd
> /emul/aout/usr/X11R6/lib; mv *.so *.so.? /usr/X11R6/lib" should pretty
> much do it), and see what happens.

Thanks for the information. I should have noticed that there was not
libXt.so. Although, I didn't know this was related. I created the symlink:
 cd /usr/X11R6/lib/
 ln -s libXt.so.6 libXt.so

And now xscreensaver-gnome successfully is built and installed. 

Thanks again,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/