[101667] in RedHat Linux List
Re[2]: XF86 Libraries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lane Lester)
Sat Nov 28 11:36:31 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:20:05 -0500
From: Lane Lester <llester@athens.net>
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Fred W. Noltie Jr. said:
> Just to clear up an apparent misconception: a.out and ELF are types
> of executables. a.out is basically obsolete (with some exceptions
> still, I guess); modern Linux executables are all ELF format. XF86 just
> refers to programs/libraries that run under XFree86, which
> could be either a.out or ELF.
>
> So if you have libforms.so.0.8{6,8}, you have what you said you need.
Thanks, Fred, for that explanation. However, I don't have
libforms.so.0.86, although I have 88. And the files listed under ELF
had a different filename... unless they are archives that unpack to
provide libforms.so.0.86. I'll check 'em out a bit later.
Lane
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