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From: awnbreel@panix.com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: emacs: ld.so failed (970205-GAMMA)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 16:47:20 GMT
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I've been trying to get emacs (19.34b) to run and I keep
getting these "ld.so failed" messages. In particular, the one I get
now is "libXmu.so.6.0 not found". I must confess <blush> that there
was an earlier "ld.so failed" message which I "solved" by finding what
appeared to be an earlier version of the missing lib and creating a
link to it. This was just to see what happened (I got to the
"libXmu.so.6.0 not found" message), and now of course even though I
search the lib directories for a link, I am uncertain of what I did so
I can't really undo it. Sigh ...
Also, I used Altavista to find a "libXmu.so.6.0" file at some
RedHat site and, just for the heck of it, tried that but I got a
"wrong magic number" message.
Anyway, any advice? I don't have X11 installed if that has
anything to do with anything. I can't believe getting something as
basic as emacs to run can be this difficult. And, btw, I have other
stuff like lynx & joe running fine. This is a standalone, "just
screwing around" machine.
Michael R Weholt
http://www.panix.com/~mrw/