I've now got xplanet 0.94 working with everything except that darn netpbm library, and I'm going to try making a fink package out of it.
However, in taking a look at /etc/system.log with the 'console' program, I notice that the kernel is forever trying to run fix_prebinding on xplanet, and that it thinks it's succeding, but that the next time it's launched it can't be launched prebound, prompting another attempt at fix_prebinding. (update_prebinding, when run explicity on /sw/bin/xplanet, doesn't even try to prebind xplanet.) The logs look something like this:
Nov 2 18:09:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/bin/xplanet could not be launched prebound.
Nov 2 18:09:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/bin/xplanet couldn't be prebound in the past, and probably can't be prebound now.
Nov 2 18:09:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: 2002-11-02 18:09:14 -0500: prebinding for xplanet done.
Nov 2 18:11:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/bin/xplanet could not be launched prebound.
Nov 2 18:11:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/bin/xplanet couldn't be prebound in the past, and probably can't be prebound now.
Nov 2 18:11:14 Sauron /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: 2002-11-02 18:11:14 -0500: prebinding for xplanet done.
And so on, ad nauseam.
Is there an easy way to tell fix_prebinding to "give up" on xplanet? Among other things, the messages are bloating system.log. (I've been poking around trying to put libraries places that update_prebinding could find them, but it's beyond my abilities - I don't even know how to discover whether xplanet was compiled with the prebinding information added; I suspect not. otool -L only tells the dependencies.)
For the purposes of my shell script that invokes xplanet, I've added 'setenv DYLD_NO_FIX_PREBINDING true', but that's a kludge.
I've also noticed similar behavior from some other members of the X11 package, like xinit, xset, and xkbcomp, but I'm not invoking them every 2 minutes!
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 11:00 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
Perhaps you would be interested in making a fink package for xplanet?
Well, one can but try. I'll give it a whirl.
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Dave Filippi, M.D.
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