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From: ccallana@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu (Chris Callanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Xwindows
Date: 17 Sep 1995 22:21:49 GMT
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Gernot M. Fuchs (gfuchs@pasteur.med.unc.edu) wrote:
: You have to run /usr/etc/ldconfig. ldconfig is used to configure a
: performance-enhancing  cache for  the  run-time  link-editor,  ld.so. 
: It is run from /etc/rc.local and periodically via cron to avoid linking
: with stale libraries. It should be also be run manually when a new shared
: object (e.g., a shared library) is installed on the system.

: If you run it w/o options, it uses the default path for the set of directories
: searched by the link editors.


i've done that... ;)

it adds all the X librarys to the ld.so cache... but i still get 
errors... like the following

ld.so: xterm: @ No such file or directory

ld.so exists, xterm exists..  perms are correct...

i'm confused

--chris


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