Shared libraries and getting Wordperfect to work

[Stephen.Murphy@aspex.co.uk]

I finally got Wordperfect to work on my newly installed
Slink system - thanks primarily to siemce@linux.indtech.edu.

I needed to install xlib6 out of the oldlibs directory
(as well as libc5 - which I knew about), and libXpm (I think
it was) also from oldlibs.
Thanks also to nate@firetrail and david@whizziwig for their
input.

I was very confused by fact that it said it couldn't find
libXt.so.6 - when I could see this was installed. But it
was smarter than I thought as it knew this was an incompatible
(newer) version. When I tried to force it to use this - by
putting it's path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH I got a segmentation 
fault. I am very pleased to have finally put that problem to
bed. Thanks.



Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:00:43 -0500
From: Marcin Kurc <siemce@linux.indtech.edu>

You need to install xlib6.

then you have:
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:45:24PM +0000, Stephen.Murphy@aspex.co.uk wrote: 
> I installed slink using the CD that came with the New Riders
> book and seem to have a problem finding shared libraries.
> 
> When I try and run wordperfect  I get -
> 
> xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> 
> locate libXt.so.6 produces
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> 
> I check permissions with ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6* and get
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Nov  6 02:33 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       290440 Feb 23  1999 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> 
> I know the paths must be in ld.so.conf so I check with less /etc/ld.so.conf
> and get
> 
> /usr/lib/tkstep
> /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /lib/libc5-compat
> /etc/ld.so.conf (END)
> 
> The paths are there - I have run ldconfig loads of times.
> The only way I can get the system to find the libraries is to
> add put paths in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
> to put a link in /lib or /usr/lib.
> I shouldn't need to if the path is in ld.so.conf should I?
> 
>