On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > John, thanks for your reply... Sorry, I should have been clearer. > And I typed wrong. The library was in /usr/lib but I guess FPC is > looking for 'libgpm.so' rather than 'libgpm.so.1' .. it's the '.1' > that fools FPC and it's happened before. I don't know if it's a > RedHat thing .. because /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 is, itself, a sim link > to something like /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1.18.1.. I gather that's the way > that one reconciles having the version number in the shared library > while trying to let linkers find the libraries... I just wonder why > FPC doesn't understand... Maybe this is considered such a trivial > matter to people that can write compilers :) Or maybe this is an > incompatibility between Linux distro's and RH just loses? If I'm not terribly mistaken, executing ldconfig should generate those links automatically. libgpm.so.1 should automatically generate a libgpm.so if you run it (and you should after installing a new library). That is, of course if /etc/ld.so.conf contains the directory where libgpm is installed. an't help you there. > > I've had other programs mis-behave... The command history bits of my > favorite text adventure game works fine in console mode but screws > things up when I'm in Konsole. I spent a little while goggling > around about keyboards and character sets and X ... but X is probably > the area of Linux that I know the least and I didn't understand any > of the stuff I found. > As I said - I can't help you there. I've suffered to get fonts working like I wanted under X. I had quite a few problems getting 'composing' working on the keyboard (te get accented characters). The only thing I can recommend is to read the "Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO" which is probably installed somewhere on your machine and is quite extensive. I have seen that Xterm has its own ways with many things, which could cause your differences. Almost any other program will act in a more standard way. Greetings, John _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
