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- From: rab@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Duty Programmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: /lib/libc.2.2.2 problems
- Keywords: GCC,shared libraries
- Message-ID: <2942@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 23:53:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.215732.28525@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Sender: duty@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
- Reply-To: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
- Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne
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- In article <1992Aug11.215732.28525@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, kevins@cae.wisc.edu (Kevin Schroedel) writes:
- |> I run xgames programs like xpuzzle or othello, I get the messages
- |> /lib/libc.2.2.2
- |> /lib/libm.2.2.2
- |> and then the program dies.
-
- I had this problem too. In my case, for some reason i had not installed the X11
- libraries correctly. Curiously, the problem only appeared with some X programs.
- Check that you have Xv1.1 and that the appropriate libraries are in
- /usr/lib/gcc-lib/.../2.2.2/{shared,static} as the install docs say.
-
- |> At one point, I saw a posting that said the ldd was responsible for the
-
- This is misinformation.
- The startup code in crt0.o prints out the names of the shared libraries required
- when called with argc set to 0. This is what ldd does in order to find out what
- shared libraries are required by a program. Hence the problem has nothing to do
- with ldd, it just manifests itself in the same way.
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- Reinstall the X libs !
-
- rab
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