On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:08:26PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > Can I simply fire this up in the VMware virtual machine with a > > barebone xinit ? > > > > yes. just make sure you set your PATH etc so you start the new bits, > > not the > > system-wide ones. > > Well that is not a problem, there is no system wide X at all on this vmware > machine. > > > > > aster $ ldd /opt/xorg/bin/xlsatoms > > > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff5c59e000) > > > libxcb.so.1 => not found > > > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3f8612e000) > > > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3f86496000) > > > > > > > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $prefix/lib > > That there looks like a build error. One should never, ever, need to specify > LD_IBRARY_PATH in order to run a binary in some location like /opt/foo. The > RPATH *should* be in the binary itself. > > Otherwise there is no promise that the binary will operate as expected.
fwiw, both debian and fedora discourage the use of RPATH http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
