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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:51:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with Xwin
Message-ID:  <19971223215156.7341.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>

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Hi there,
The system MUST know where to look for the libraries,
the system knows this info from the LD_LIBRARYPATH
to set it up, pu the following line in your;

Which file		What
.cshrc 			setenv LD_LIBRARYPATH /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
.profile		LD_LIBRARYPATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

You may also put this in /etc/rc (these lines are there by default)
most probably you SHOT them too.

# Make shared lib searching a little faster.  Leave /usr/lib first if
you
# add your own entries or you may come to grief.
_LDC=/usr/lib
if [ -d /usr/lib/compat ]; then _LDC="${_LDC} /usr/lib/compat" ; fi
if [ -d /usr/X11R6/lib ]; then _LDC="${_LDC} /usr/X11R6/lib" ; fi
if [ -d /usr/local/lib ]; then _LDC="${_LDC} /usr/local/lib" ; fi
echo 'setting ldconfig path:' ${_LDC}
ldconfig ${_LDC}

for the record, you may also issue the following command;

man ldconfig
and learn how to manually do things with libraries on the system.
If the problem persists, givbe more description, which Library,
etc, and you'll get more HELP.

Greetings




---Carson Saunders <casaunde@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> I recently installed Free BSD 2.2.1 onto my computer but I cant seem
to get
> X windows to run.  Whenever I try startx I get an error message
about some
> shared library that couldnt be found.  Then I went into the lib
directory
> and it was sitting right there.  Why is this happening?  What should
I do?
> Im very new to this so you may have to break it down into dummy
terms for
> me.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Carson Saunders
> casaunde@vt.edu
> 
> 

==
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