Xpdf problem

[Eugen Cocalea]

Hi people,

I installed xpdf-0.92 on a HP-UX 11.00 with the required dependencies, of course (this means freetype as well).
But, when I am trying to run xpdf, I get this error message:

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /opt/freetype/lib/libttf.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
Abort(coredump)

and, of course, I get this core dumped file :)

sounds familiar? just give me a hint.

thanks.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Does the freetype library libttf.sl exit and is it in the that directory. Also try setting SHLIB_PATH to include /opt/freetype/lib.

-Santosh

[Eugen Cocalea]

The funny thing is that libttf.sl is not in the /opt/freetype/lib directory, where it should reside. And freetype generated no errors on installation.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Does it exist on the system anywhere? If so then just include that directory in SHLIB_PATH and also make sure that the library has execute permissions.

-Santosh

[Eugen Cocalea]

:) I was looking for it but couldn't find it. I tried to link to another library whose name sounded similiar, but I got another error message so I went back to the first problem.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Hmm, seems to be a packaging problem with the Freetype package. The package SHOULD include libttf.sl but doesn't. I would recommend recompling from source.

-Santosh

[Eugen Cocalea]

I think I've found it. The freetype-2.0.4 doesn't include the libttf.sl file. The package 1.3.1 has it, so I removed 2.0.4 and installed 1.3.1. I don't make the big difference between the 2.0.4 and 1.3.1 but I will dig further into it.