Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cme!durer!rowe From: rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: shares libs (Was: Re: X11R4 on Sparcstation 1 solved) Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 90 22:01:56 GMT References: <0ZywOA600XcgE5ekhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <22490@metropolis.super.ORG> <23058@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Distribution: comp Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 24 In-reply-to: stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU's message of 15 Mar 90 02:15:51 GMT >>>>> On 15 Mar 90, stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) said: Andreas> After some experimenting with the installation of X11 libs Andreas> under SunOS4.0 we came to the following conclusion: Andreas> IF ... THEN use /usr/local/lib to create a bunch of symbolic Andreas> links to whereever you keep the libraries. I found this out also, and it works very nicely. We support a wide variety of architectures out of one source tree, and have come up with a relatively architecture-independent scheme for maintaining all the libraries for the various architectures. These symlinks helped us in implementing this, as well. Andreas> /usr/local/lib is a "trusted" directory, although not Andreas> mentioned in Sun's documentation. Uhm, I think the X Release Notes states this. I know some docs somewhere in the X11R4 distribution say so. --- Walter P. Rowe, System Administrator, Robot Systems Division National Institute of Standards and Technology