In message <Pine.LNX.4.43.0501062226010.27246-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>, "
Jeremy C. Reed" writes:
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Staffan Thomen wrote:
>
>> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> > I just set up a machine with only xorg.  That is, I didn't install any
>> > of the X packages from the distribution.  (Well, the CD I built; it's
>> > -current from yesterday.)  I then built xorg from source.  When I try
>> > to run anything -- including such things as xterm -- it tells me that
>> > it can't find things like libX11.so.6.
>
>Did the X server work fine? (And just the xorg-clients had problems?)

The Xserver worked, in that it suddenly put up a high-res background 
and the mouse worked.  twm was working, or I couldn't have tried to 
fire up failing applications like xterm.  Hmm -- the background was the 
right color, which means that 'xsetroot' was working, too.
>
>Do Xnest and xorgcfg have the correct RPATH?

I don't know what RPATH is, nor xorgcfg -- I configured the system via
'X -configure'.  How do I check this?
>
>Can either of you file a PR about this?
>
I will do so when I'm a little clearer on exactly what's happening.  It 
occurred to me last night that the problem is even more complex than I 
had thought -- any time you're compiling, you presumably need some way 
to reference libraries; I'd assume that the Makefiles are pointing to
/usr/X11R6/lib or some such.  (And what will that do to binary packages 
built on other machines?)


		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb