Re: 2.96.4 beta build reports

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

> George N White <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>>>> The link of xdvi-motif.bin failed until I added -L/usr/Motif-2.1/lib32 and
>>>>> made the corresponding adjustment to the rpath.  This system was
>
>> The problem is that the default Motif "build environment" on this system
>> is Motif-1.2.  To make Motif-2.1 the default, you have to run a
>> script to create new symbolic links in the system library directories.
>> I'm not eager to try that (will existing binaries look for shared
>> libs in the "real" locations?).
>
> I wouldn't recommend that either ...
>
>> Using c99, and XLib and or Motif-1.2 seem require some BSD
>> functions, but Motif-2.1 works well without the BSD compatibilty settings.
>
>> ld32: ERROR   33 : Unresolved text symbol "XmCreateSpinBox"
> [...]
>
> OK, these are normal Motif 2.x functions. You had specified
> -I/usr/Motif-2.1/include in CXXFLAGS, so it's understandable
> that you also had to specify the libraries if they are in a
> non-default place. (BTW, would the configure flags
> --with-motif-include=... --with-motif-libdir=... work too?)

I'll look into that if I can get some time.

> It seems difficult to create a configure check for such an
> unusual situation, so I'd suggest to leave it at that if
> Thomas agrees ...

Unless more than a few other people are running into similar difficulties
there is no reason to change things -- the problem is well documented
in the list archives now.



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