Re: error in shared library

[Leiming Qian <lqian uiuc edu>]

Dear Mike Dickson: you told me that..
> I have tried several programs, including gimp from the rpm and AfterStep
> compiled by me, and I'm getting the following:
> error in loading shared library:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol: _Xglobal_lock
> What is this?

General warning, don't install any programs that might corrupt ("corrupt"
might not be the correct word") the RedHat installation, since most of the
libraries are now compiled against glibc instead of libc. What I did was
trying to install the latest GTK (which is needed by control-panel) and GIMP
from the RPM. The new GIMP runs well, but control-panel stopped working,
saying it can't find libc.so.5. So just be careful when you do things like
that.

yours
Leiming

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