On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Johan Carlsson wrote:

> /usr/libexec/ld.so: xinit: libXext.so.6.1: No such file or directory
> 
> The file is there alright (in /usr/X11R6/lib). Any ideas?
> I installed xbase12, xcomp12 and xserver12 (right after installing netbsd12,
> etc. on a clean disk so everything is as vanilla as it gets). I've only
> followed the instructions in the FAQ by Colin Wood (BTW, in chapter 9.4 the
> path should be /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 I believe) including editing /etc/rc and
> /etc/rc.local which run just fine (which should mean that the link editor
> does find the X-libraries, right?).

Just add the following line to rc.local:

ldconfig /usr/X11R6/lib

This tells the dynamic linker to look in that directory too.
I would even recommend to read the manpage for ldconfig.

Bye     Peter

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Peter Kelm (kelm@physik.tu-berlin.de)

Technical University Berlin
Physics Department