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

The SW4.0 xv works in BL3.40.  It does not need any X libraries other than 
libX11.  It works if I don't add any more X libraries, or even if I have 
three libraries (Xmu Xp Xt) from Slackware 7.1, or if I add x-libs.tgz

The SW7.0 xv does not work with my library mixture probably because it 
needs the newer libX11.

I have not tried whethere SW4.0 xv can use the later libX11.

xpdf does not work on three computers with the SW4.0 X libraries.

On Mon, 15 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Mon, 15 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> > > BL3.40 with glibc 2.2.5 (SW8.1)
> > >
> > > xv (Slackware 7.1) from BL2.
> >
> > It would have been better to use the xv from Slackware 4.0.
Yes.

> > > The X libraries that I added are from SW7.1
> >
> > It would have been better to add the BL3 X-library package.
> I can add that on top of what I have to replace it, right?
> And get xv from SW4.0.

Did not need to add any libraries for xv.

> > > but libX11.so.6.1 is the one that came with BL3.40
> >
> > That's libc5.  So now you've got a mixture of glibc2
> > X libraries and libc5 X libraries.  That's not good.

No, but xv does not care.  xpdf does not work with or without these added 
libraries, but it complains about missing libXmu without them.

> > > Should I replace the BL3.40 libX11.so.6.1 with the SW7.1
> > > libX11.so.6.1,
> >
> > That would be better.

Did not work for me.

Since xpdf is statically compiled and should only need libX11.so.6, I 
backed that up and copied over the libX11.so.6.1 from BL2 (SW7.1) and 
could not run X at all.  startx - three segmentation faults.

What next?  Please try to get xpdf working, Steven.  It looks complicated 
to compile if it needs Motif etc.

Sindi