Walter Dnes wrote: > So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able > to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... > > m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7 > > Then I kludged together an ugly workaround... > > [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib > [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8 > > Much to my surprise, the damn thing actually works. But I know that > somewhere down the line, this will come back to bite me. How do I get > the real libXaw.so.8 built? >
Aaawwww... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P When you encounter broken packages, you should run "revdep-rebuild --pretend", watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without --pretend. That is the right way to solve such problems. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
