From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 12:13:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10522 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10512 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 12:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA05709; Thu, 1 May 1997 15:18:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970501151749.00a68660@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 15:17:49 -0400 To: Tim Tsai , questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: ld.so/ldconfig problem In-Reply-To: <19970501130619.51444@shell.futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:06 PM 5/01/97 -0500, Tim Tsai wrote: > We are seeing a strange problem with ld.so. A customer is trying to >run xauth but keeps having problem with a shared library. I have run >ldconfig to add the X11R6 library path and the problem persists. The >only way around this so far is to manually set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH >variable to include /usr/X11R6/lib. Any ideas? I had / have the same problem... Not sure whats going on, but the messy little hack I used to get around it was to create individual symlinks in /usr/lib pointing to /usr/X11R6/lib ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *