lib problems

Russell Berry (rberry@albany.net)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:49:20 -0400


Recently I've been getting these messages when running some
X programs...

rasmol: can't load library '/usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.6'
Exec format error
rasmol: can't load library '/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.6'
Exec format error

and compiling some X programs produces an ld error indicating
that -lX11 is not found.

here are my actual libs recognized by ld:

ldconfig -p |grep libX
84 - ELF libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6.0
85 - ELF libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
86 - DLL libXt.so.6 =>
/usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXt.so.6.0
87 - DLL libXt.so.6 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXt.so.6.0
88 - DLL libXt.so.3 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
89 - DLL libXpm.so.4 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXpm.so.4.7
90 - ELF libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.6
91 - ELF libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.3
92 - DLL libXpm.so.4 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXpm.so.4.3
93 - ELF libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
94 - ELF libXm.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libXm.so.0.50
95 - ELF libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6.0
96 - ELF libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0
97 - DLL libXaw3d.so.6 =>
/usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXaw3d.so.6.0
98 - ELF libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.0
99 - DLL libXaw.so.6 =>
/usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXaw.so.6.0
100 - DLL libXaw.so.6 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXaw.so.6.0
101 - DLL libXaw.so.3 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXaw.so.3.1.0
102 - ELF libXIE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXIE.so.6.0
103 - DLL libXIE.so.6 =>
/usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXIE.so.6.0
104 - DLL libXIE.so.6 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libXIE.so.6.0
105 - ELF libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0
106 - DLL libX11.so.6 =>
/usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libX11.so.6.0
107 - DLL libX11.so.6 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.6.0
108 - DLL libX11.so.3 => /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0

As you can see, they are there for a.out or ELF. The programs above
which
exhibit the loading behavior still work, but the compiling problem still
exists. Any clues here??

---russ