Re: teTeX 3.0: installation fails on SGI 6.5.22f

Thomas Lauke <[email protected]> writes:

[ problem in the xdvi linking step: ]

> ld32: FATAL   12 : Expecting n32 objects: /usr/freeware/lib/libXpm.so is
> o32.
> *** Error code 2 (bu21)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)

> What's wrong with our installation of /usr/freeware/lib? How to solve
> this problem?

We had this problem on this list before
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00471.html),
but unfortunately the following discussion was via PM only ... here's
what I answered back then:

> Googling for "Expecting n32 objects" "is o32" I found the following:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00049.html
> http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2001-11/thread00766-0.html
> 
> This seems to be a problem with your installation (using a different
> compiler than the one your libXm.so was compiled with). If the other
> X libraries don't have that problem, you could try to call configure
> with --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw to compile without Motif.
> 
> Or you could change LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to an .so that has been
> compiled with the same compiler, eventually compile a new version of
> openmotif, or pass the -mabi=32 flag to gcc for compatibility with o32
> when compiling xdvi if you do want Motif.

apparently the -mabi=32 switch didn't work for him, so maybe
--with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw is the quickest solution.

Best,
Stefan