Re: [PLUG] trouble with X

[Jon Nelson <bigfish@enter.net>]

You of course are right, small typo.  I meant with minor versions.  Should 
have said, "...you have libGL.so.1.#."

At 10:19 AM 7/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
> 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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