Porting graphical Solaris application to Linux


 
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Old 04-02-2013
What linux are you building this in? They can coexist, certainly, but you certainly don't want a 32-bit libc instead which is what many Linux package managers would think you want. Instead, 32-bit libc often gets put in an x86-emul package or the like so you can install them without overriding them...
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Old 04-05-2013
X Font is not my strength, but there is static linking and then there is setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH carefully ld-linux(8): dynamic linker/loader - Linux man page (unless the library path is wire in for security or paranoia, called rpath, back when was a -R option; some have been know to use it for everything). Here in HP-UX, I often have to strip out embedded paths using 'chatr' as I am not root installing to usual paths. You can see the process of any object's dynamic links in your env using 'ldd -rsv'.
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