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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:35:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Charles Allen <ccallen@swbell.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   IDL 5.2.1 on FreeBSD 3.2?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909142134510.3218-100000@juniper.sweetshade.net>

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Anyone gotten IDL 5.2.1 going on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE using the Linux
distribution?  I had little or no problem with 5.1 on an earlier
FreeBSD.  With the current combo, I've:

* Twiddled every shell script in bin/ that has the switch on `uname` to
have an additional

        "FreeBSD") OS="linux";;

right below the "Linux") line.

* Made an idl_startup.sh that is a copy of idl_startup.ksh with 'alias
-x' changed to 'alias'.  What does the -x do in ksh?

Now when I try to start idl I get

charles@juniper$ idl
/usr/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/idl: error in loading shared libraries
libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

even though the library really is around in a standard location:

charles@juniper$ locate libXp.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXp.so.6.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6

I've got Linux compatibility turned on, via linux_enable="YES" in
/etc/rc.conf.  It's my understanding that I don't have to recompile a
kernel with 'options COMPAT_LINUX' since that functionality can be
provided by a kernel module these days (/modules/linux.ko?).

I'm getting out of my depth at this point....

-- Charles Allen -- ccallen@swbell.net --



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