[tex-live] x64 libXau

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

> I was just testing on x64 (RedHat AS 4)
>
> starting xdvi gives me an
>
> ~> xdvi file.dvi
> xdvi-xaw: error while loading shared libraries: libXau.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> funny enough it works fine on a 32 bit RedHat AS 4, and running the
> i386-linux binaries on the 64 bit server works fine with xdvi. but not the
> native x64 binaries.
>
> any ideas why the x64 version requires libXau while the i386 does not?

Even for i686-pc-linux a straight "build" using the defaults on Ubuntu-8.10
gives:

$ ldd xdvi-motif xdvi-xaw
xdvi-motif:
 [...]
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7b1a000)
 [...]
xdvi-xaw:
 [...]
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7c8b000)
 [...]

I think libXau would be installed via package dependencies on most systems
that are used to run X applications, so the problem should be limited
to systems
that are configured without X11.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia