gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:19:50 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] trouble with X


On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:16:15AM -0400, Jon Nelson wrote:
> One thing you might try is see if you have libGL.so.#. If you do make a 
> link to it using libGL.so.1.  Had this similar problem trying install other 
> things in RH, and this worked well.  I don't know if that is the hosed GCC 
> in RH or a problem with XFree86.

Uh... while this *might* work, it's really not advisable.

Library major version numbers change when the API has changed
sufficiently that you *don't* want to use some other idea of the
API to access the library.

Rather, you should either install the right library or link properly
against the one you have.

-- 
       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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