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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:10:22 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: re: libXExExt
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:23:18AM -0400, Brian McGovern wrote:
>
> cc: greg@lomis.com

If you want to get me, swap the e and the o: grog@lemis.com :-)  I'm
on -hackers, so I got this anyway.

>> On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 01:18:19PM -0400, Brian McGovern wrote:
>>> Where can I find this library.
>
>> This looks like a typo to me, but I can't decide whether it's yours or
>> something that got included in your system.  In any case, it's almost
>> certainly looking for libXext.<mumble>.  It should be in
>> /usr/X11R6/lib.
>
> It appears to be a brain seize in the ports, then. fvwm wants it,
> ddd wanted it... I've tried others, but don't remember what they were at
> the moment. I linked libXext.<mumble> to libXExExt.<mumble>, and all is
> now working fine. The ports set I'm working with was last weeks (round
> about 9/4 or so) ports-current.

Thanks for that.  I had more or less written this off as lack of
knowledge on my part.  Or is there really a libXExExt?

Greg