Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:13:54 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: applix 5.0 and current Message-ID: <20011017071354.A64132@madman.nectar.com> 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 References: <20011016124313.A12105@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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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 <n@nectar.com> 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
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