Subject: Re: Afterstep & libXpm.4.7
To: None <cruller@unicom.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/20/1997 17:05:06
cruller@unicom.net wrote:
>
> I was trying to get afterstep installed and it insisted on libXpm.4.7
> which I found somewhere and ran through the installer to get it into
> netbsd. afterstep still doesnt see the lib and whats more I can't find
> it myself so I can add it to my path.
Well...I would have asked where you put the lib, but since _you_ don't
know ;-) If you never happen to find the silly thing, you can use the
Installer to cpin the tarfile and then install it from the NetBSD side,
btw.
> Afterstep says something like(where dir is a directory like
> /etc/libexec/ld.so ?) /dir/dir/ld.so Afterstep libXpm.4.7 no such file
> or directory.
Yeah, that's what I would expect. When you do figure out where to put the
library (I'd suggest either /usr/X11R6/lib or /usr/local/lib), you need to
add that directory to your /etc/ld.so.conf file (if you have one, if not,
you'll need to explicitly do a ldconfig -m /path/to/libdir in
/etc/rc.local)
> (Here is where I feel real dumb) I have never figured out how to get the
> find command to search through all the directories, only the working
> dir. I know I'm just not setting the correct flag. ( read those cryptic
> man pages, confused even more) Some of the man pages have examples, and
> makes commands easier to learn. Find, however is not one of them.
Real easy :-) The syntax is:
find <start dir> [options]
so, I'd do something like:
find / -print | grep Xpm
> Does NetBSD defragment the drive automatically?
Yes (well, I don't think that the 4.4BSD FFS really fragments in the same
sense as a MacOS HFS filesystem). Read the appropriate file in
/usr/share/doc/smm/ for more info (more than you'd ever want to know,
probably) about the 4.4BSD FFS (fast filesystem).
> I'm still in my first semester of c++ so this is all a bit
> overwhelming. Any help will entitle you too my first-born and a six
> pack of Surge.
AHHHHHH...not surge, no, not that!!!! ;-)
Well, anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck!
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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