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Re: xterm, xload, and X libraries in non-standard locations

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From: Joshua Osborne
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 01:04
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In article <22078@metropolis.super.ORG> rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>In article <ZS-##4=@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>no, if you make them sgid kmem it fails too.
>How do you get full functionality out of xload if you
>can't read kmem? Or do you make kmem world-readable? 
>I don't get it.
If you staticly link xload then it doesn't need any shared libs, so it doesn't
matter that it only searches the standard path, because all it needs is libc.so!
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Subject: Re: xterm, xload, and X libraries in non-standard locations
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