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> 
> Sure it helps.
> 
> The linker (ld) is looking at your archive (libXpm.a) and
> saying its not a valid archive for the platform your are on.
> 
> There could be lots of causes:
> 
> . when you downloaded, you didn't download using binary mode.
> . The file you downloaded is not the one your OS or OS version uses.
> 
> Tell use what OS you are using, and the steps you followed,
Actually, it seems that somehow configure is looking at the libXpm.a file in /usr/dept/R6/lib rather than the new version of libXpm.a in /usr/dept/xpm/lib. Is there anyway to convince configure to get the right one? It is like it is not taking my config options.
I am trying to build on solaris 2.7
> 
> -or-
> 
> look in INSTALL.fvwm which points you to a source distribution of
> xpm, and download and build it yourself.
I downloaded the binary version from the distribution in the install.fvwm file.
> 
> Another way to check the validity of an archive is:
> 
> nm /usr/dept/R6/lib/libXpm.a
This gives me a bunch of errors, but if I do it on /usr/dept/xpm/lib/libXpm.a it seems to work correctly.
Dave
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