Problems installing Xaw3d?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 1 00:51:23 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:14:39PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> >> 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).
> 
> No.  Everything's the default.

The only way libXaw3d installs .so.7 is if

.if ${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM:L} == xorg
XAWVER=                         8
.else
XAWVER=                         7
.endif

So I actually got it backwards, and you seem to have X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
set to something non-default.

Kris
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