Dan Astoorian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When the configure script compiles the test program for XPM support, it
> inserts a -L option for the directory specified by the --with-xpm-library
> option.  However, if libXpm is a shared object, and is not in the
> standard library path, the test program will be unable to locate the
> shared object at runtime.
> 
> Under SunOS 5.x (Solaris), the library path needs to be declared with -R
> options in addition to -L .  This is done for, e.g., $x_libraries, but not
> for $xpm_LIBS .
> 
> Please note that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not an acceptable solution.
> (See http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html for a list of reasons why.)
> 
> This doesn't appear to have been fixed in the current version, 2.5.1.

See the section:

Shared Libraries in Non-standard Places

in the INSTALL.fvwm file.

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