Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update

[Kristian Poul Herkild <kristian@herkild.dk>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able
> to find libXaw.so.8.  First, I checked to see what was available...
> 
> m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul  1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul  1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7
> 
>   Then I kludged together an ugly workaround...
> 
> [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib
> [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8
> 
>   Much to my surprise, the damn thing actually works.  But I know that
> somewhere down the line, this will come back to bite me.  How do I get
> the real libXaw.so.8 built?
> 

Aaawwww... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P

When you encounter broken packages, you should run "revdep-rebuild
--pretend", watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without
--pretend.

That is the right way to solve such problems.

-Kristian Poul Herkild
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