Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I just set up a machine with only xorg.  That is, I didn't install any 
> of the X packages from the distribution.  (Well, the CD I built; it's 
> -current from yesterday.)  I then built xorg from source.  When I try 
> to run anything -- including such things as xterm -- it tells me that 
> it can't find things like libX11.so.6.
> 
> I can bypass the problem by creating a symlink X11R6 that points to pkg/xorg.
> Apart from that being ugly, when I install new distributions (this 
> machine does run -current) it will remove that symlink and create a 
> dummy tree.  Is there any clean way around the problem?

I worked around this (shouldn't rpaths be set properly here, at least 
for pkgsrc-built stuff?) by adding /usr/pkg/xorg/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf, 
and everything is fine.

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Staffan Thomén