[Vm-dev] FFI is not finding libraries on Ubuntu 11.04

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 03:55:25PM -0400, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> 
> X11Display class >> XOpenDisplay: displayName
> 	"X11Display XOpenDisplay: nil"
> 	<cdecl: X11Display* 'XOpenDisplay' (char*) module:'X11'>
> 	^self externalCallFailed
> 
> It also results in a series of calls to bogus files:
> 
> access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/X11", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/X11", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
> open("/lib/X11", O_RDONLY)              = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/sse2/X11", O_RDONLY)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/X11", O_RDONLY)          = 8
> 
> The library is actually at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 , which
> is at least in whatever search path FFI seems to be using. It may have
> found the library had it been looking for the correct filename

And if you change the declaration to the following, it works?

  <cdecl: X11Display* 'XOpenDisplay' (char*) module:'libX11.so.6'>

Dave