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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> The latest xpdf contains all statically compiled binaries, so why is xpdf
> having problems in BL3?  The complaint was, I think, about libX11.so.6.
> (I can't get BL3.40 startx to work correctly while chrooted so can't check
> right now.  There is no prompt at the xterm and there is some message
> about /bin/bash.  Xvesa, Xsetup.).

I have X working correctly in BL3.40 in another computer where I had not 
added any libraries other than the ones needed by Opera (which were libc5 
version, I think, but smaller than the ones in x-libs.tgz - SW3.1 instead 
of 4.0?).

I replaced the SW7.1 with the SW4.0 xv binary.
I downloaded x-libs.tgz for BL3.40 but before installing the 800K (zipped) 
of Xlibs I tried xpdf again.

It appears to need libXmu, it complained about
xpdf:  error while loading shared libraries:  libXmu.so.6:  cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory.

So it pkg'ed x-libs.tgz.

xv now works perfectly (though I should increase X resolution).
xpdf now tells me:

Error:  No display font for 'Courier" (and similarly for about 10-10 other 
fonts).

In BL2 I installed the 75 dpi fonts packages but I would prefer to display 
with xpdf using one single font for all the ones they listed.  What file 
would I modify to do this, assuming Bl3 comes with a scalable font.

But xpdf also still complains about libX11.so.6:
xpdf:  relocation error:  libX11.so.6:  undefined symbol:  _xstat.

Does xpdf need a newer libX11?  It works in BL2 with SW7.1 X libraries.

If I replace libX11.so.6, should I replace all the X libraries (the ones 
in x-libs.tgz and the ones that came with Bl3.40 and icewm) with X 
libraries from Slackware 7.1 (xpdf works with them in BL2) or even 9.0 or 
would the libc5 X programs that come with BL3.40 no longer work?

If newer libX11 etc. fixes xpdf, maybe you could also post a SW7.1 or 9.0 
x-libs.tgz package. SW7.1 libX11.so.6.1 is about 200K larger, libXt about 
30K larger, too big for the floppy disk BL but should be no problem on 
hard drive.

I don't want to experiment since at present it is only xpdf that does not 
work in BL3.40.  I don't want to break everything else.  You were 
experimenting with Flash and later X libraries.  If you still have that 
setup could you please check if xpdf works and nothing else got broken 
with the later X libraries?

Perhaps someone could compile xpdf to work with the BL3.40 (SW4.0) X 
libraries.  http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/xpdf-3.01.tar.gz  600K

Then there is the problem of not finding Courier etc. font.  It can use 
Type1 Truetype or regular X fonts.  The precompiled xpdf for glibc 2.2 is 
statically linked to Motif, t1lib, and FreeType.

BL3.40 has a /100dpi directory with Type1 symlinked to it and one .pfb 
font - would this work with xpdf and a fonts.alias? Or could I copy over 
one font from BL2 /75dpi to somewhere in BL3.40 and make fonts.alias?

Other X programs might also be looking for Courier.

My partner low-level formatted our 1.3GB laptop drive that would not 
partition and says it is working okay now, but I prefer to keep linux 
smaller than that and not add several megabytes of fonts packages and 
possibly mess up BL3 X in the process.

Opera is still working with these replacement X libraries.

> SW4.0 Ghostscript won't read pdf 1.5 (in use for the past few years) and
> is much larger.
>
> Please check if xpdf works for you in BL3.40.  xpdf is 2MB (as is the
> zipped version), the package for xpdf and CLI programs 4.5MB.  I could
> post just xpdf if that would help.

I don't think you need anything but that one file to test with.

I hope some day you can make a completely uClibc BL so we don't need two 
libc's and can just add glibc2 from SW9.0 if we want to use precompiled 
programs from Slackware.

I am off to replace my BL3 XF86Config with the correct one for BL2.
(Or fix the line about fonts location).

Sindi