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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: xforms-0.89 depends on compat/libc.so.3 ?
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> > I think this did not happen when using xforms-0.88.1. In fact, the ldd
> > command shows that a lyx-1.1.5 built on another system (linked to
> > xforms-0.88.1) does not depend on libc.so.3. However, despite this
> > strange phenomenom, lyx seems to work fine. But anyway, that dependency
> > on compat3x is ugly, very ugly.
> 
> This sort of behaviour is unavoidable with binary-only software, unless author is cute enough to link it with
> libc.a instead.
> 

I have just sent a message to the author of xforms explaining this problem.

Cheers,
-- JMA
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