From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 07:26:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08764 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:26:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ics.com (ics.com [140.186.40.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08758 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaleb@ics.com) Received: from ics.com (sunoco.ics.com [140.186.40.142]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id KAA25016; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:26:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36792298.B49D9F28@ics.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:26:16 -0500 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devel@xfree86.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _Xsetlocale References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is (just one reason) why ld.so.cache is just a bad idea. What would it take to get the boneheads who do the linux distributions to take /usr/X11R6/lib out of their ldconfig? XFree86 binaries have RPATH and NEEDEDs, so they don't need no steenking ld.so.cache. Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David Dawes wrote: > > I just asked one of the people who reported the problem to try doing that > > (removing /etc/ld.so.cache and rerunning ldconfig), and it didn't help. > > What did help was swapping the order of /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib > > and /usr/X11R6/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, then regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache. > > I know that this was suggested before, but that it can cause problems with > > libc5 based X clients. Should we suggest this as a workaround pending new > > libraries or not? > > I was one of those who reported the problem. > I've put /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib before /usr/X11R6/lib in > /etc/ld.so.conf, and my RedHat 5.2 box is working with 3.3.3. > This is in fact the way that RedHat ship /etc/ld.so.conf, so > there may infact be no problem. I changed it since it was "obviously > broken" :-(. > > I say my machine is working again, that means at least one libc5 client > (acroread). I'm not familiar with _Xsetlocale (the subject line) so can't > say whether those problems in particular are fixed. > > I'm sure that RedHat will be releasing a XFree86 3.3.3 rpm as Vladimir > Dergachev suggested, but as always a new release of RedHat has come > out just before the new version of XFree86. > > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message