Re: Dynamic linking.. or??

[Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>]

(This debate can go on for ever :-).. I will probably give up after
this and idly start looking around for the docs, or post on news :-) )

The question remains:
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You say it is the author of xkeycaps who should put -lXpm into his
Imakefile.. 

I don't agree.. If he doesn't use Xpm, in his application, neither
does his libXaw, why should he have to lookup what our system wants
and add that to the Imakefile..

Isn't it the configuration on the machine who wants to build it who
should put it there, because it knows that its libXaw needs Xpm??

| > LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib cc -o xkeycaps -O -Xc -xF -xcg92 
| > -L/usr/openwin/lib ./xkeycaps.o ./KbdWidget.o  ./KeyWidget.o 
| > ./info.o ./actions.o ./commands.o  ./guess.o ./all-kbds.o  
| > ./sunOS.o  -lXaw
| > -lXt -lSM -lICE  -lXmu -lm -lXext -lX11    -lsocket -lnsl  
| 
| Yep,  NOTE there is no -lXpm even on your Solaris?
| libXaw.a in XF86 4.0.x  needs to link to libXpm, which was missing from your
| Imakefile.

Sorry I am running solaris on a sparc machine, therefore no XF86 on
that, tried two scenarios:
 * Old OpenWin first. no libXpm exists.. linked ok.
 * New X11R6 (on another SUN) compiled fine without -lXpm, even when
   the X11R6 -lXaw __wants__ -lXpm.

I also compile xkeycaps on my linux machine, with XF86. There is no
-lXpm on the link-line, but it links ok anyhow.. And my linux -lXaw
wants Xpm, to be loaded during runtime.


| > / Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com> wrote:
| > [...] 
| > | I assume this Imakefile of xfree86?
| > 
| > How do you mean?? This Imakefile is from the old application 
| > xkeycaps.. dated 99 or something. 
| 
| Yes older version, in 99 xf86 was 3.3.x and there was no libXpm in it

No it is NO _xf86_ Imakefile, it is xkeycaps Imakefile.. 

        /Andy