[tex-live] x64 libXau

[Lars Madsen]

George N. White III wrote:
> 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.
> 

that might be it as the x64 server is only used via remote access over, 
say, ssh

should the x64 xdvi be rebuild? if it doesn't actually need libXau?


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/daleif