On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:52:37PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:06:01PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote: > > > I've got a bit of a problem with the updates recently made to the X > > > system in Debian GNU/HURD. I can not install xfonts-scalable as the > > > installation process can't find libXft.so.1. This I find surprising > > > given that it is > > Perhaps you would like to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before you run > > dpkg/apt/dselect or make a symlink that makes the lib visible to the > > liker? > > I discovered the LD_LIBRARY_PATH solution after posting the request for > help. I was confused by the fact that I had set up /etc/ld.so.conf as I > would for a Linux system but it was having no effect. Since it appears not > to be used would it make sense to remove it from the distribution?
Yeah, sure. It is a Linux-specific addition to the Linker. We should remove it, but it is created by several packages in their postinst scripts, and it is just a cosmetic change. So it has so low priority that it drops off everybodies radar even if you have it right in front of you. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
