Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:50:12 +1000 From: Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai@vfemail.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: X11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 libXrandr.so.2 Message-ID: <BD26C814.B%kaiwai@vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <1090517758.919.1.camel@leguin>
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On 23/7/04 3:35 AM, "Eric Anholt" <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 08:17, Matthew Gardiner wrote: >> On 22/7/04 6:24 PM, "Manfred Goetzie" <mgoetzi@gwdg.de> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Dear Sirs, >>> >>> Please excuse my bad english. I am a novice in Linux and FreeBSD. I try >>> to execute an absolute Linux program which runs on Knoppx, Suse and >>> RadHat to execute on FreeBsd 4.7. >>> The error messgae is: Error while loading shared library: libXrandr.so.2 >>> cannot open shared library object file: No such file or directory. >>> >>> Can you help me how i can solve this problem. >> >> Ok, list the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr* and create a symbolic link >> between the real one and libXrandr.so.2 >> >> Matty > > From that message I guessed that he was trying to run a Linux binary, so > linking a library from the FreeBSD side will just cause more pain. The > solution would be to go find a linux libXrandr.so.2 (perhaps from those > linux systems mentioned) and copy that in. True, I guess it depends on your mileage and how much the binary actually relies on the library. With that being said, it would be interesting to know what the binary is; whether there is the source code and whether it is portable to FreeBSD. Matty
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