Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:26:16 -0500 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> To: devel@xfree86.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _Xsetlocale Message-ID: <36792298.B49D9F28@ics.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981217145136.9140C-100000@auk.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
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This is (just one reason) why ld.so.cache is just a bad idea. What would it take to get the boneheads who do the linux distributions to take /usr/X11R6/lib out of their ldconfig? XFree86 binaries have RPATH and NEEDEDs, so they don't need no steenking ld.so.cache. Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David Dawes wrote: > > I just asked one of the people who reported the problem to try doing that > > (removing /etc/ld.so.cache and rerunning ldconfig), and it didn't help. > > What did help was swapping the order of /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib > > and /usr/X11R6/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, then regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache. > > I know that this was suggested before, but that it can cause problems with > > libc5 based X clients. Should we suggest this as a workaround pending new > > libraries or not? > > I was one of those who reported the problem. > I've put /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib before /usr/X11R6/lib in > /etc/ld.so.conf, and my RedHat 5.2 box is working with 3.3.3. > This is in fact the way that RedHat ship /etc/ld.so.conf, so > there may infact be no problem. I changed it since it was "obviously > broken" :-(. > > I say my machine is working again, that means at least one libc5 client > (acroread). I'm not familiar with _Xsetlocale (the subject line) so can't > say whether those problems in particular are fixed. > > I'm sure that RedHat will be releasing a XFree86 3.3.3 rpm as Vladimir > Dergachev suggested, but as always a new release of RedHat has come > out just before the new version of XFree86. > > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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