XEmacs bundled with SunStudio 11

Hi there,

I 've just installed Solaris in a Pentium4 laptop and an Athlon-XP desktop.

I used the Solaris 10.0 6/06 version and the Companion CD coming with

Solaris 10.0 6/06. When I installed the packages from the companion CD

I was surprised to see that 'xemacs' couldn't run. It was killed with a message

saying:

couldn't find libncurses.so.5 no such file or directory .

The companion DVD provides only static versions of the ncurses libraries.

Have the Sun developers missed that point?

On the other hand 'xemacs' coming with SunStudio 11 tarball works fine.

Could somebody tell me which is the most appropriate forum to post this

message since this is not so much related to C++? Sun web page is so huge

that it is not so easy finding what you want.

Since SunSolaris 10 Companion DVD provides xemacs why to include it in

sunstudio as well? Then one who may want to install all the packages from

the companion and "export" PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH may get in trouble.

[1077 byte] By [stimenia] at [2007-11-26 9:23:37]
# 1

Hi,

I have deployed a few S10 0606 systems.

It does look like the libncurses library is static only.Also, this has probably

broken a few other things, since /opt/sfw/bin/clear does not work anymore:

ldd /opt/sfw/bin/clear

libncurses.so.5 =>(file not found)

libc.so.1 =>/lib/libc.so.1

libm.so.2 =>/lib/libm.so.2

/platform/SUNW,A70/lib/libc_psr.so.1

And so of course, it searches for it in /opt/sfw/lib, where only the static lib exists.

I guess there will be an update for this, but perhaps a bug case could be logged

with Sun in any case?

rachel

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