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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:10:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xemacs package and libXpm
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970213190952.7430D-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199702140126.RAA01523@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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What versions of Xemacs and FreeBSD are you running?  I have Xemacs 19.14 
on 2.1.5, and I can put up any libs you need for FTP if our versions match.

On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Jim Shankland wrote:

> Hi.  I'm trying to install the xemacs package, and find I'm missing
> libXpm.so.4.10:
> 
> 	biggusdiskus:/usr/X11$ xemacs
> 	ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXpm.so.4.10"
> 	biggusdiskus:/usr/X11$ 
> 
> I've gotten the source for libXpm from ftp.x.org, and I guess I'll
> compile it and install it in /usr/X11/lib; but I thought package
> installation was supposed to be a no-brainer?  Is there some
> really easy step I missed?  This was supposed to be a 10-minute
> project, and it's already sucked up an hour or so -- not the end
> of the world, I know, but it's always frustrating when you expect
> something to be absolutely trivial, and it's not.
> 
> Jim Shankland
> Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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