From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 21: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78BD37B502 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22903 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:29:34 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9A49Aw11337 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:09:10 +0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:09:10 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: common packages not working Message-ID: <20001010080910.A11202@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from media@mail1.nai.net on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:43:00PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:43:00PM -0400, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > # emacs > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 : shared object libXaw.so.6 not found > > and > > #gs > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 : shared object libXt.so.6 not found > > #find / -name "libXaw.so.6" > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXaw.so.6 There are Linux shared libraries. But you need native. > > #find / -name "libXt.so.6" > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 > /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6 > > So they are on my system. Do I need to create symbolic links by hand?? > Why do I have X11R6 files and directories if I haven't installed XFree86 on > this system?? Or is that my problem?? These seem like Linux compatibility > files, isn't emacs native to Unix?? emacs just compiled with X11 support. You need X11 libraries even if you run emacs in console. Just another reason for rebuilding. > > Anyway, what should I do?? In the future, should I use ports or packages > if both are available?? I think ports is better. Others may think packages are better. Only one thing I can say, when I have used (and on some PC's still use) various Linux distros, my /usr/local grows bigger and bigger just because I don't like RPMS/SRPMS dpkg slp and Slackware .tgz so I used source. But with excelent ports system in FreeBSD sources work even better :-) -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message