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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newer X11 libs?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:58:55 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com>
Shawn Carey wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM.
> Everything has gone rather well, except that some of the X clients
> (apparently the "contrib" clients) are linked against newer X11
> shared libraries than what came off the CDROM. To name them, the
> libraries are lib{Xaw,X11,Xext}.so.6.1. Is there a newer version
> of XFree out there somewhere, or did these clients get linked on
> someone's development rig?
I get the XFree86 binaries from the XFree86 Project directly, so it's
possible that someone there linked some clients with more experimental
versions of the libs. You might just try making some symlinks in
/usr/X11R6/lib, gross as that sounds. :-(
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- Jordan Hubbard
President, FreeBSD Project