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From: andres@cca.pue.udlap.mx (Andres M)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  HELP ME! (if you have built X11R4 on Sun)
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Date: 18 Apr 91 16:27:57 GMT
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> Here's my problem: Our group has two machines, a SUN 3/260 which
> acts as a master for a SUN 3/50 client. We recently brought our
> operating system up to SunOS 4.1, and so I thought this would be
> a good time to rebuild X, and try out the GNU C compiler. I had
> been told that substantial performance improvements could be
> gained if you used the GNU C compiler. 
> 
> So I started over completely. I re-downloaded everything from 
> export.lcs.mit.edu and I reconfigured the site.def and sun.cf
> files exactly as they were before the upgrade to SunOS 4.1 from
> SunOS 4.0.3. (EXCEPT, OF COURSE, the OSName, OSMinorVersion, and
> HasGcc build variables). The "make World" went fine, and the "make
> install" went fine. However, when I say startx as I usually do, 
> and the system startup file tries to call xinit, I get this
> error:
> 
> ld.so: libXmu.so.4: file not found
> ld.so: libXaw.so.4: file not found
> 
> I figure hey, no problem, just a missing file. But I look in
> /usr/lib, and there were files there called
> 
> libXmu.so.4.0, libXmu.sa.4.0, and libXaw.so.4.0,
> 
> having the suffix "4.0" instead of "4". So I copied the files
> to the new suffix and changed the protection of the new files
> to exactly what the old ones were, and tried again.
> 
> Still gives me the same error message. So I do a man on ld.so
> and find out a little about how that works. From the man page, 
> I find out that I can set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> so I set it with the command
> 
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
> 
> and try again. Same error. HOWEVER, when I become super-user
> with the su command, IT RUNS FINE!!!!!!!!! (the startup file calls
> xinit fine, and everything chugs along just like I'm used to).
> But when I exit from being super-user (sounds like a Superman movie)
> and become just little ol' user again, I get the same error message:
> 
> ld.so: libXmu.so.4: file not found
> 
> even WITH the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set. 
> 
> 
> My own conclusions: since the configuration is exactly the same
> as it was before, AND WE NEVER HAD TO SET SOME ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
> BEFORE, then the problem is one of two things:
> 
> 1) Something to do with Gcc; or
> 2) Something to do with SunOS 4.1 (something we didn't 
>    install right, bug. etc.)
> 
> 
> The $1,000,000 question is this: HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS PROBLEM
> BEFORE? DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?
> 
> I would really appreciate any suggestions!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric Hyche
> eric@medinfo.gatech.edu
> gt7417a@prism.gatech.edu
> eric@markov.eedsp.gatech.edu
> 
> -- 
> ERIC HYCHE                            | "All I know is - He's a force more
> ARPA: eric@medinfo.gatech.edu         | powerful that Mom and Dad put
> uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo, | together and you owe him BIG!"
>          ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt7417a |               - Lisa Simpson
> 

Try with "ldconfig"

This is because  they are shared libraries

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Andres Monterrosas              Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
Ing. de Proyectos
Centro de Computo

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