Problems installing Xaw3d?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 1 00:26:14 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:00:27PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I've just tried several times to install emacs on a freshly installed
> 7.0 box (Dell Inspiron 6000 FWIW).  The Emacs installation fails
> consistently with the following messages:
> 
>    ===>   emacs-21.3_8 depends on shared library: Xaw3d.8 - not found
>    ===>    Verifying install for Xaw3d.8 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/Xaw3d
>    ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>    ===>  Extracting for Xaw3d-1.5E_1
>    => Checksum OK for Xaw3d-1.5E.tar.gz.
>    ... (Xaw3d installs)
>    + /usr/bin/install -c -m 0444 XawImP.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d
>    install in . done
>    install.man in . done
>    ...
>    *******************************************************************
>    ===>   Running ldconfig
>    /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib
>    ===>   Registering installation for Xaw3d-1.5E_1
>    ===>   Returning to build of emacs-21.3_8
>    Error: shared library "Xaw3d.8" does not exist
>    *** Error code 1
> 
> Investigation shows that the port is installing libXaw3d.7, not
> libXaw3d.8.  I solved the installation problem by creating a link between
>  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 and  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.8:
> 
>  $ l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.*
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  420930 Nov  1 17:39 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.a
>  -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  309646 Nov  1 17:39 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so
>  -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  309646 Nov  1 17:39 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7
>  -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  309646 Nov  1 17:39 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.8
> 
> Obviously something needs to be done.  I'd be happy to enter a PR, but
> I'm not sure which package is to blame.

Looks like you're using XFree86 (not the default), but don't have
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM set appropriately (see /usr/ports/UPDATING).

Kris
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