This is similar to other (old) problems I saw on the list archives. This is
regarding axiom pulled from git on April 29th 2008 (which I guess is a
Silver source, my bad, I was looking for a Gold, but whatever). Basically
something from graph wants to link against libXpm.a. However, my
installatio (and I haven't touched it for the most part), not only doesn't
contain libXpm.a in /usr/X11R6/lib, it doesn't have this library at all
AFAIK. It only has a libtoolized archive, i.e. libXpm.la, and the shared
libraries libXpm.so.<version>. I don't know much about libtool, but from
what I can tell this is a script wrapper that hides the actually archive.
Anyway, I should be able to use the shared library files, right? Here is
some info:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux marco 2.6.23.9MYTH-TV #4 SMP Mon Dec 17 05:46:46 MST 2007 i686 AMD
Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libXpm.a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libXpm
/var/log/packages/libXpm-3.5.6-i486-1
/var/log/scripts/libXpm-3.5.6-i486-1
/usr/lib/libXpm.so.4.11.0
/usr/lib/libXpm.so.4
/usr/lib/libXpm.la
/usr/lib/libXpm.so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/lib/libXp
libXp.la libXpm.so.4 libXprintUtil.la
libXp.so libXpm.so.4.11.0 libXprintUtil.so
libXp.so.6 libXprintAppUtil.la libXprintUtil.so.1
libXp.so.6.2.0 libXprintAppUtil.so libXprintUtil.so.1.0.0
libXpm.la libXprintAppUtil.so.1
libXpm.so libXprintAppUtil.so.1.0.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/lib/libXpm.la
/usr/lib/libXpm.la: libtool library file
Similar to the approach in another thread, I replaced all occurrences of
${XLIB}/libXpm.a with -lXpm in the Makefile.pamphlet file. I believe that
such a replacement will make this work on my system (and others like it) but
not break any other installations. The linker should automatically look for
libXpm.a and libXpm.so on the linker directories when it encounters a -l
flag, right? Why is the libXpm archive's path hard coded into makefile
maker?
I am still working on the build (old computer), but it appears to be on the
testing stage without problems, so it seems to have worked.
Zach
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