Thanks for your reply - I've been thinking along those lines - I actually installed libc5 quite early on. Am I right in thinking if "ldd xwp" shows all the libaries can be found then that is not the problem?
I understood that as long as the library path is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf then the library should be locatable at run time and presumably by the ldd command. However ldd could not find the libraries, nor could they be found at run time unless I put the path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. I am quite new to this as you may have gathered.
