Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 19:19:38 -0400 From: Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: pir@pir.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: applix 5.0 failing Message-ID: <3AF9D08A.FB2BD58@pobox.com> References: <20010509125705.B14261@pir.net> <15097.46418.265527.654361@guru.mired.org>
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Hmm. I built 4.3 STABLE right after a cvsup about four days ago. Applix works fine for me without me having to make any changes. I presume if I was to cvsup now, Applix would break? Mike Meyer wrote: > The problem is that getresuid is now available in a library that > Applixware doesn't link dynamically. The gtk port finds it at config > time, and tries to use it. When invoked from Applixware, it can't find > it because the library is missing, and you get the result you see > here. > > The gtk port maintainer claims that Applixware is at fault for not > having statically linked gtk. I'm not sufficiently conversant with > FreeBSD's shared library mechanisms, but I figure that the gtk library > should dynamically link in all the libraries it needs. Since that > isn't happening, you have to work around the problem. > > If you clean the gtk port, then do "make config", you can go back and > turn off HAVE_GETRESUID by hand in the appropriate include file. I > forget the details, but I've been through it a couple of times. The > resulting gtk library will then use a workaround so that you don't > lose any functionality. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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