Re: XForms: Linking, or permissions?

Rita Schmidt (rschmidt@fgan.de)
Tue, 26 May 1998 12:42:24 +0200

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Rita Schmidt <rschmidt@fgan.de> :

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 864112 Apr 7 12:44 /usr/lib/libforms.a
> lrwx------ 1 root root 25 Apr 7 12:44 /usr/lib/libforms.sl -> /usr/lib/libforms.sl.0.88
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 831488 Apr 7 12:44 /usr/lib/libforms.sl.0.88
>
> And `ls -l /usr/include/forms.h`:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100368 Apr 7 12:44 /usr/include/forms.h
>
> These are all standard places. I also got an installation in home-dir.
> If I try to compile things, I explicitely have to give the
> -l${HOME}/XForms/xforms/FORMS and -L${HOME}/XForms/xforms/FORMS options,
> or else the s**t does not run. Compiling is OK, but run gives:
> /usr/lib/dld.sl: Call to mmap() failed - TEXT /usr/lib/libforms.sl
> /usr/lib/dld.sl: Permission denied
> Abort(coredump)

You have to change the permissions :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 23 10:39
/usr/lib/libforms.so -> libforms.so.0.88*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 545792 Mar 23 10:37
/usr/lib/libforms.so.0.88*

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