Sigh. Yet again, one of those things that seems so *obvious* once someone
holds it up in front of your face and shows it to you. Next time I'll try
to *think* for a few more minutes before wasting everybody's time. Anyway,
the solution is essentially ...
(1) Copy the v3 libXt.so somewhere useful (I used /local/shlib).
(2) Create a trivial wrapper script, which is nothing but
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/shlib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /our/real/application $*
Many thanks to ...
Sean O'Connell <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>, whose reply was the first to arrive.
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>, who made essentially the same
suggestion, and added that the problem may stem from the fact that DU v4
is now X11R6-ish, whereas v3 was X11R5.
Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>, who suspects that these old executables may
date back to X11R3 days.
... as well as to all the rest of you, whose replies may be in transit but
haven't reached my mailbox yet.
(And many embarrassments, for not having come up with this solution myself!)
Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for mark_at_cita.utoronto.ca
Theoretical Astrophysics
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~mark
"Sheep not busy being shorn are busy frying" -- Dylan, at a NZ lamb barbecue
[ singing "It's all right, ma (I'm only bleating)" ]
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 20:38:27 NZST