[tex-live] TeX Live 2011 on Solaris Intel: three problems

Ettore Aldrovandi ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu
Tue May 31 04:21:43 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:03:47PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
 
> On Solaris Intel, I can successfully typeset a simple test, but cannot
> view it:
> 
> 	% tex story.tex
> 	% xdvi story.tex
> 	ld.so.1: xdvi-xaw: fatal: libXaw7.so.7: open failed: No such file or directory
> 
> 	% ls /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw*
> 	/usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so  /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so.4  /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so.5
> 
>  	% ldd /usr/local/share/lib/tex/texlive-2011-05/bin/i386-solaris/xdvi-xaw
>         libXaw7.so.7 =>  (file not found)
>         libXmu.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libXmu.so.4
> 	[... all others are correctly found ...]
> 
> It looks like  this version was built on  OpenSolaris (11) rather than
> Sun Solaris (10).  The latter is far more common.  OpenSolaris has the
> needed library files:
> 
> 	% ls /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw*
> 	/usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so    /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so.7
> 	/usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so.4  /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw7.so
> 	/usr/openwin/lib/libXaw.so.5  /usr/openwin/lib/libXaw7.so.7

Hello,

I reported the same problem in 2009.  Then two different xdvi-xaw
binaries were built, one on them for Solaris 10, built with
libXaw.so.5.

I can do some testing on S10, unfortunately our machines with S10
installed are going to go away...

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