Re: FVWM: Silent fail!

From: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw_at_CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:22:18 -0400

>>>>> "DK" == David Kennedy <D.Kennedy_at_queens-belfast.ac.uk> writes:

    DK> Hi, after a little debacle getting FVWM compiled I sat down to
    DK> enjoy using it again...only to log in and have the computer
    DK> log me out. I presume FVWM is crashing out straight
    DK> away...check my errors file:

    DK> ld.so.1: /home7/dcjk/bin/fvwm: fatal: libXpm.so.4.8: can't
    DK> open file: errno=2

This probably has nothing to do with your problem, but I thought I'd
mention it.

I have found there are some subtle differences with Solaris 2.5
dynamic linker/loader. It is especially noticable on our x86
machines. Solaris/Sparc is I'd say 99% indistinguishable from
Solaris/Intel, from a users (and even developers) perspective, but the
one gotcha that I've had to deal with is the use of -L and -R flags
for dynamic linking. On Sparc I'd usually just used the -L flag to
get the dynlib paths compiled into the binary, so no tweaking of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH was necessary. On Intel, -L alone wouldn't do it.
You had to use -R.

I've taken to hacking the Openwin imake config files to add the -R
flag for both platforms since it certainly doesn't hurt for Sparc. I
think I added -R to sun.cf's ExtraLoadFlags...

-Barry
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Received on Wed May 01 1996 - 10:20:36 BST

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