From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 17 5:14:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0532B37B491 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from madman.nectar.com (madman.nectar.com [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E0E39; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:14:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9HCDsE55646; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:13:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:13:54 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Brooks Davis Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: applix 5.0 and current Message-ID: <20011017071354.A64132@madman.nectar.com> References: <20011016124313.A12105@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011016124313.A12105@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:43:13PM -0700 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:43:13PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into > some intresting problems. The first one was that current has the > getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortuatly > FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x don't have this syscall so you can't use libgtk12 > with old libc's if it's built on current. I was able to build a new one > with use of getresuid disabled and that got the main program to load. > It appears that the gtk12 port needs to disable this dubious feature or > getresuid needs to be MFC'd all the way back to 3.x. A workaround that I used previously is to compile up getresuid.so and run Applix with e.g. `env LD_PRELOAD=/PATH/TO/getresuid.so applix'. -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.nectar.com/ Verio Web Hosting = FreeBSD UNIX = Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net = nectar@FreeBSD.org = nectar@pdc.kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message