On Tuesday 09 December 2008 03:57:28 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:56:59AM +0000, b-vol wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am having a spot of bother with cursor-themes-1.0.1 compilation. I > > have installed the rest of Xorg7.4 (including Xserver-1.5.3) without > > problems. The fonts need x-cursor-themes-1.0.1 and this is proving > > problematic to compile. The problem is described in the two snippets > > below. > > > > ### after configure and make is executed:- ########## > > /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen -p ../redglass ./X_cursor.cfg X_cursor > > /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen: error while loading shared libraries: > > libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director > > Is this a multilib system ? That message looks like what you might > get if one of the items is built 32-bit and the other is built > 64-bit. > > > ########but ls returns libX11.so.6 in /usr/X11R7.4/lib:- ######### > > bash-3.2# ls -l /usr/X11R7.4/lib/libX11.so.6 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2008-12-08 12:03 /usr/X11R7.4/lib/libX11.so.6 > > -> libX11.so.6.2.0 > > bash-3.2# > > > > helpful suggestions will be appreciated > > Try ldd /usr/X11R7.4/lib/libX11.so.6 ? > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
I checked /etc/ld.so.cong and I had forgotton to put an entry for /usr/X11R7.4. I have done the fix and all's well. thanks for your help. -- ################################### “Common sense teaches that booksellers should not speculate in hops, or bankers in turpentine; that railways should not be promoted by maiden ladies, or canals by beneficed clergymen ....” Walter Bagehot-economist: 1826-1877 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
