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To: Rick Campbell <rickc@lehman.com>
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Subject: Re: Solaris dynamics? 
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:51:26 -0400
From: Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>

rickc@lehman.com said:
> Anyway, when I try to run the prebuilt 19.15, I get an error message
> about not being able to find libXm.so.3 and sure enough, what's in my
> path is libXm.so.2.  Is there any way that I can run the prebuilt
> XEmacs under Solaris? 

What happens when you symlink libXm.so.3 to libXm.so.2?


> Is there any chance that policy can be changed so that the prebuilt
> XEmacs binaries are portable.  In particular, can the policy be that a
> staticly linked version is made available for people who don't have
> the particular mix of shared libraries that existed in the build
> environment? 

My understanding is that some of the Motif licensing issues are a little 
screwy, and that static libraries are not always available.  I have no 
static motif libs under Solaris 2.5, but maybe the static libs were an 
install-time option.


vin

