From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 10:52:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13599 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msli.com ([165.113.240.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13592 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jisom@localhost) by msli.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA02232; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:51:11 -0700 From: Jim Isom Message-Id: <199605211751.KAA02232@msli.com> Subject: Re: Emacs pkg_add problem -- please help. To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: ro11@crux4.cit.cornell.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605210233.MAA24268@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 21, 96 12:03:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Michael Smith: > ro11@crux4.cit.cornell.edu stands accused of saying: > > > > produces an angry response from ld.so to the effect that some > > library in /usr/X11R6/lib is not found. I downloaded the beta > > XFree86 and ran ldconfig on /usr/X11R6/lib, but still have the > > same problem. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated... > > I'm resisting the urge to swear at you. Consider yourself lucky 8) > > _WHICH_ library isn't found? How can we _possibly_ tell what the problem > is from here? Are we supposed to be telepathic, or perhaps to track your > machine down, hack into it and check for ourselves? > > Please. Apply just a skerrick of the old grey matter here. > > > Rohan > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > Hmmm. At the risk of being flamed by knowledgable others, I'll note that in order to avoid the problems dscribed by Rohan, I've included in my .cshrc a line: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib This fixed a problem when running xemacs. -- Jim Isom jisom@msli.com