[3560] in RedHat Linux List
Re: xemacs-19.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Sat Nov 9 06:01:57 1996
To: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 09 Nov 1996 11:54:43 +0100
In-Reply-To: Paul Branston's message of Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:19:35 +0000 (GMT)
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Since upgrading to RedHat 4.0 I have been unable to run xemacs which I used
> extensively before. On startup it complains that it can't load load
> libncurses.so.2.0 . I have tried a symbolic link
> libncurses.so.2.0 -> libncurses.so.1.9.9e
> and running ldconfig.
It wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't work....
> After that it starts displays for a few seconds and seg faults. Anyone got it
> to work ?
... and here you've discovered that. You can't just link libs with
different major version numbers, and expect them to work.
You need to:
1) Install the old libncurses rpm (rpm -i --force )
2) recompile the xemacs rpm
or
3) get the new xemacs-19.14-2.i386.rpm
instead.
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