Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:23:49 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1.1 & X11 Linux EMU -- Broken? Message-ID: <39DC8EF5.EE39B6A7@magpage.com> References: <20001005015840.A9878@area51.v-wave.com>
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Chris Wasser wrote: > > COMPAT_LINUX and linux_base are installed. My XF86 is pretty old simply because it's a serious pain in the ass to update > certain X components (such as X itself -- uninstall, reinstall; libpng is another problem port too in this sense, you can > update the port but other ports which require libpng look for the previous version rather then the newer one [a "problem" > the port maintainers should "look into" <ahem> -- It should be noted that if this is because there's something I missed, I > apologize and should rtfm]) > Chris, I can't really comment on the rest of your email, but I recently upgraded to the newest sawfish and in the process of doing so I upgraded libpng. Well, suffice it to say that this broke something and X wouldn't start, so after rebuilding X, png, imlib and generally wasting about half a day, I got things working by linking libpng.so.3 to libpng.so.4. Now, if that had been covered by the port maintainer it would have saved me half a day. Actually...I think I 'm gonna shoot him an email... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 System Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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