well, one way to get them to compile with libc6 is to have and run libc6.
what distro are you using? i think you should use libc6 unless you have a
specific reason NOT to, which i doubt you do. migrating from libc5 to
libc6 could very possibly break _many_ things on your system, for a
migration like that i would recommend a backup and full distro upgrade
or something.
simply setting out to upgrade only libc5 to libc6 could very possibly result
in a hassle of nightmare-ish proportions...
George Winn wrote:
> Hi everyone....For those of you who deleted or forgot my last post, here's
> a brief synopsis of the problem:
> I have accelx on my system, and I recently installed windowmaker. When i
> go to 'startx', I get
> wmaker: can't load library libXext.so.4
> and then back to the command prompt. So, I run ldconfig -v, and sure
> enough, all of the required libraries are listed.
> However, when I type:
> ldd /full/path/to/wmaker
> Most of the libraries are reported in their proper location, however
> libXext.so.4 and two others are reported not found.
> So, I reinstalled accelx, then reinstalled the libraries, then reinstalled
> windowmaker, and wouldn't ya know it, same problem.
> So, this time, when i did the 'make windowmaker' command, I directed the
> output to a file. When I went through and looked at this file, I saw a few
> warnings, "Warning: libc.so.6 which is needed by libXext.so.4, may conflict
> with libc.so.5"
> This warning was reported for each of the 3 missing libraries. So, I'm
> SURE this has SOMETHING to do with my problem. So, from what I gather,
> windowmaker is being compiled with libc6 and the libraries are being
> compiled with libc5....I could be wrong though, someone please correct me
> if I am. I am far from experienced when it comes to linking problems of
> this sort. So, I guess my question, besides the obvious "how do i get the
> damned thing working?" is how do I make these libraries compile with libc6?
> Thanks in advance.
> A very frustrated,
> George Winn
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