[M3devel] trouble installing on a Debian lenny system.

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:08:06PM -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:
> Looks like you have a strangely configured X11 subsystem.  Look at how  
> libXaw (the one cminstall is actually looking for) is not visible in / 
> usr/lib.

So you seem to be telling me that the problem is that a symbolic 
link libXaw->libXaw7.so.7 is missing, even though 
libXaw.so.7->libXaw7.so.7 is clearly present, there's a complete suite 
of links for libXaw7,  and, as far as I know, no other programs are 
having problems with this.

hendrik at april:/usr/lib$ ls -l  libXaw*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2006-06-15 11:33 libXaw3d.so.6 -> 
libXaw3d.so.6.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367784 2006-05-03 07:20 libXaw3d.so.6.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2006-09-20 11:39 libXaw7.so.7 -> 
libXaw7.so.7.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 440496 2006-08-27 19:51 libXaw7.so.7.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2006-09-20 11:39 libXaw.so.7 -> 
libXaw7.so.7
hendrik at april:/usr/lib$ 

So, since I run a pretty-well autoconfigured X installed from 
Debian-stable packages, and regularly updated, something must have gone 
wrong with one of the upgrades since the dawn of time.  Or maybe Debian 
is just weird.   I'll go on the Debian sites and try to identify the 
misbehaving package.

Thanks.