Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > > Both of these are available as debian installer packages, you know. > Actually, I knew there was one for netscape, but I couldn't find > realplayer...
It's still stuck in incoming. > According to the documentation for the dynamic linker, this only works > if (I think) the full version names of the libraries are built in, > usually by explicitly specifying all the libraries on the command line > at compile time with the "-l" switch. Well, I don't know of any other way to link in libraries except via the -l switch, like -lncurses, or whatever. > However,many binaries, including ALL the non-debian ones don't do > this. As a result I get the wrong results (see footnote [1]) > 2) [Yay!] Is there some tool that will ALTER a binary and insert the > necessary version info? How was the debain version of netscape > generated? AFIAK, the debian version of netscape isn't modified at all. It's simply unpacked out of the tar file for netscape. I know that the rvplayer binary isn't modified at all by the debian rvplayer installer package (I maintain it), and look at it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rvplayer/rvplayer libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4000c000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4001e000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40060000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4006b000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40109000) libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x4010c000) libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40144000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40175000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4017e000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4023a000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40243000) I have to wonder if there is perhaps something misconfigured on your system.. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .