XForms: Getting XForms to Work under IRIX

Richard A. Bilonick (rabil@home.com)
Sun, 30 May 1999 19:46:52 -0400

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "Richard A. Bilonick" <rabil@home.com> :

I want to run LyX which requires XForms. Everytime I try to run LyX I get:

c56321-a 6# lyx
3144:/usr/local/bin/lyxb: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname
'libforms.so.0.88' under any of the filenames
/apps/rvplayer5.0/libforms.so.0.88:/usr/lib32/libforms.so.0.88:/usr/lib32/internal/libforms.so.0.88:/lib32/libforms.so.0.88:

/opt/lib32/libforms.so.0.88:/apps/rvplayer5.0/libforms.so.0.88.0:/usr/lib32/libforms.so.0.88.0:/usr/lib32/internal/libforms.so.0.88.0:

/lib32/libforms.so.0.88.0:/opt/lib32/libforms.so.0.88.0:

I did "make install".

c56321-a 10# make install
cp FORMS/libforms.a /usr/lib;chmod 644 /usr/lib/libforms.a
cp DESIGN/fdesign /usr/local/bin; chmod 711 /usr/local/bin/fdesign
cp fd2ps/fd2ps /usr/local/bin; chmod 711 /usr/local/bin/fd2ps
cp FORMS/forms.h /usr/include;\
chmod 644 /usr/include/forms.h
cp FORMS/xforms.5 /usr/man/man5; chmod 644 /usr/man/man5/xforms.5
Cannot create /usr/man/man5 - No such file or directory
*** Error code 2 (bu21)

I also manually placed libforms.so.0.88 in /usr/lib32, same with libforms.a.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Rick Bilonick -  mailto:rab@nauticom.net mailto:rabil@home.com
Statistical Consulting for Business & Industry
http://www.nauticom.net/usrs/rab/

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