Subject: Re: fvwm95 problem with libXpm.so.4
To: Charles Redmond <charlie25@my-dejanews.com>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/15/1999 18:57:18
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Charles Redmond wrote:

> >> >The simple answer is symlink libXpm.so.4 to libXpm.so.4.10.  As to why
> >> >the symlink is missing is another question...
> >> 
> >> I've tried this and I still received the same error message.. Are there any other steps after the ln -s 
> >> or are there any other suggestions to try ?
> >
> >Are you sure? 
> Yup, the link exists. I've even rebooted the machine 
> after making the link...
> I've also checked to see if I'd got the link back to front.. Nope.

  It's quite likely that some of the package programs were built without
the rpath option, so they don't know enough to search in /usr/X11R6/lib.
Try doing 'setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib' [or equivalent] and see
if that helps.

Michael