Bug#347505: libxxf86vm1: No /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.so

["John C. Anderson" <anderson@cs.ucdavis.edu>]

Package: libxxf86vm1
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
Severity: important


When compile a program, I encountered the error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm

Although I have the libxxf86vm1 package installed, the linker was not
picking up the library.  I looked in /usr/X11R6/lib, and there was no
symlink from libXxf86vm.so to the libXxf86vm.so.1 library file.  Once I
created this link, my program linked correctly.

Links of this type seem to be missing for other libXx* libraries.

This installation is rather fresh (about a week).  I installed sarge,
and then dist-upgraded to testing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libxxf86vm1 depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libxext6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte

libxxf86vm1 recommends no packages.

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