Runrev cgi and Webhosting providers

[Trevor DeVore]

On Apr 25, 2004, at 10:48 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 4/25/04 10:42 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>> I tried running the mc cgi on my server last night but the required X 
>> libraries were missing.  I tried downloading some compiled versions 
>> of the .so libraries but they did not work (possibly compiled on a 
>> different architecture then the pair server is running).  Pair 
>> support said they don't support things that link to X or X libraries 
>> so I would have to compile them myself I guess.  Does anyone know why 
>> the engine links to these libraries?  What does it do exactly?  My 
>> only experience with X is for graphical interface.
>
> I don't know if things have changed, but it used to be that the engine 
> only checked for the existence of these files but doesn't actually use 
> them. You used to be able to place empty files with the right name on 
> the server, and it would work. You might try creating these blank 
> dummy files and see if that fixes it.

I found some notes on that in the archives and tried it but the bsd 
engines I downloaded wanted the actual libraries.  When I used an empty 
file I get an invalid header warning.

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com