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From: steve@emmert.com (Steve Emmert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newer X11 libs?
Date: 24 Aug 1996 23:40:00 GMT
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In article <321A5F4F.7DE14518@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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. :-(
> --
> - Jordan Hubbard
> President, FreeBSD Project
I upgraded my Xwindows to X11R6.1 by getting the X312D and X312E beta
distributions from XFree86. I heard bad things about the xterm that
comes with these. So I am using the old one.
--Steve
steve@emmert.com