"BH" == Bill Hogan <bhogan> writes: BH> "DG" == Doug Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I just installed the xv package in debian/non-free, but it's complaining DG> about libX11.so.6, I checked /usr/X11R6/lib, and it's a link to libX11.so.6.0 DG> does XV just not like the link, or is the the library? I'm using DG> Debian-0.93R6. Any suggestions?
BH> xv-3.10a-2.deb is an ELF binary. BH> If you want to run an ELF binary an otherwise non-ELF Debian-0.93R6 BH> setup, you need (at minimum) three things: BH> 1. a kernel compiled with `CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y ' BH> 2. install ldso.1.7.14-1.deb (or later?) BH> 3. any ELF DLL's required by the ELF binary you want to run. [...] Oops. I should have said you could also recompile the <<Debianized XV *sources*>> which, thanks to Mr Jim Robinson, you can find in debian/non-free/source/'. This is what I did because, although the xv-3.10a-2.deb ELF binary seems to work OK with using the tricks I proposed, when I asked it to read a Postscript file I got message something like `exec error: /usr/bin/gs : can't exec /G/Elf/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6' Evidently, the wrapper trick I used to make xv-ELF look at LD_LIBRARY_PATH has the side-effect of preventing the spawned(?) `gs' process from finding the a.out DLL's it needs. But I am glad this prompted me to try to compile the <<Debianized XV *sources*>> because as soon as I found out xv-3.10a-2.deb was an ELF binary, I got into a mind-set like "Oh, oh, that's an ELF binary so those must be ELF sources so they probably won't comple on my Debian a.out setup." All things considered, I find the fact that the <<Debianized XV *sources*>> compiled _absolutely_ straight out of the package on my Debian-0.93R6 (a.out) setup to be really awesome. Bill -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <HTML> <BODY link="#00FFFF" vlink="#FF00FF"> <H3><I>Freedom To Communicate</I></H3> <A HREF="http://www.vtw.org/";>Use it or lose it.</A></BODY></HTML>
