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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:28:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm 
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:

> On an impulse I decided to copy the library to /usr/lib.  xdm no longer
> barfed on libXmu.so.6.0, but on another, so I copied the other libs from
> /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib.  Now everything works!!! 
> 
> I guess my question is why this would work if ldconfig -r reports that
> /usr/X11R6/lib is one of the search directories in the first place?

Good question.  Permissions?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major