Author Topic: Debian: no libXxf86vm.so.1  (Read 532 times)

lathspell

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Debian: no libXxf86vm.so.1
« on: May 09, 2004, 06:12:17 pm »
Hello

$ ./pssetup -verbose
Warning: Failed to load `xwin\'; reason(s):
DLERROR (xwin): libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Apparently Debian Linux only ships the .a version of those libraries as, according to a mailing list entry I found, the libraries are too unstable yet and not distributed by XFree86 as shared libraries at the moment....

Could you link your binaries statically against this library?

bye,

-christian-

Karosh_Steinkatz

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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2004, 11:53:57 pm »
You can create the shared library by yourself: go to /usr/X11R6/lib, then  do the following as root:

ld --whole-archive -share -o libXxf86vm.so.1 libXxf86vm.a
ln -s libXxf86vm.so.1 libXxf86vm.so
ldconfig


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