From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Aug 2 1:41:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6AF14F31 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA77881; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:47:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:47:15 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Steve Price Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xfree In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Steve Price wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > # Steve, > # > # Thanks for committing the patches. I've built 3.3.4 from ports & it > # seems to work, with the exception of one problem -- xdm dies with the > # following error: > # > # xdm error (pid 11153): /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so: Undefined symbol "SessionPingFailed" while loading /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so > # > # This is happening because the XdmGreet library is trying to use > # symbols defined in the xdm binary which were not exported. If I > # manually re-link xdm with the added cflag '-export-dynamic' it works > # fine. > # > # I'm not enough of a ports (or XFree86) hacker to know exactly how to > # fix this the right way... Can you help? > > The attached patch should do the trick. Can you give it a try and > let me know if it works for you? Thanks. FWIW I have a fix for XFree86 4.0 which avoids this problem without making anything static. I expect to submit it to the XFree86 folks before release. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message