Problems installing Xaw3d?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday,  1 November 2005 at  3:26:11 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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).

No.  Everything's the default.

Greg
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