On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Sporleder, Matthew (CCI-Atlanta) wrote:

> Some of the Window Managers for X (Blackbox in particular) require a
> file called libSM.so.6 which is a soft link to libSM.so.6.0 I gathered
> that some compilers (maybe c++ or whatever NetBSD is using) cannot
> follow symlinks.  So I tried hard linking and created the file as just a
> copy of libSM.so.6.0, but they still refused to work.  After a recompile
> and re-install.  Any suggestions on this?

I add /usr/X11R6/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf and it works for my blackbox.

Or you could build blackbox with switches like:
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/