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From: merworth@cs.utexas.edu (Boyd Merworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XFILESEARCHPATH
Keywords: XFILESEARCHPATH Xt libXt.a
Message-ID: <13@unknown.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 15:15:19 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I'm have a bit of a problem getting XFILESEARCHPATH to follow a new
path to the libraries under X11R4.  In lib/Xt/Intrinsic.c the
following code seems to be where XFILESEARCHPATH is checked and if it is
non-null use it otherwise use XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT:

	#ifndef VMS
        	if (defaultPath == NULL) {
            	defaultPath = getenv("XFILESEARCHPATH");
            	if (defaultPath == NULL) defaultPath = XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT;
        	}
        	path = defaultPath;
	#else
        	path = "";      /* NULL would kill us later */
	#endif /* VMS */

But, when I set the environment variable XFILESEARCHPATH to the
location of my installed libraries, the path is not followed, only the
default location is checked.  Am I missing something here?  I'm
running X11R4 on HPs under HPUX 7.0 and on Suns under OS 4.0.3.  I am
in the process of recompiling the code with XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT
redefined per the notes in the ERRATA file to see if the new location for
the libraries can be accessed.  I'll know soon.

On the Suns, I've even run ldconfig and added the new shared libraries
but they still cannot be accessed.  If, on the Suns I set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the library location, then they are found at
run-time execution by the clients.  Any suggestions?

On the HPs, I've got additional problems, like trying to locate
/lusr/include/X11/bitmaps instead of the default
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps.  We have an X11R4 release from HP installed
on our systems.  I discovered this problem when trying to run xbiff with:

	XBiff*fullPixmap:  mailfull
	XBiff*emptyPixmap:  mailempty

defined in my .Xdefaults file.  If I add the full pathname to the
bitmaps, then everyting is fine.

On both OS's I modified site.def to use the /lusr path for BinDIr,
UsrLibDir, IncDir, AdmDir, and IncRoot.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Boyd Merworth
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Computer Sciences, TAY 2.124, Austin, Texas 78712
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