soneill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Oct 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > soneill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Athlon-based machine, and most > > > everything seems to be working ok. However, I have a problem trying to run > > > any s/w that uses the Tcl library libtcl8.3.so.1. Whenver I run such a > > > program, including wish8.3, tkdesk, tkman and others, I get the following > > > error message: > > > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libtcl83.so.1: Undefined \ > > > symbol "__xuname" > > > > > > I have no idea why I would have such an undefined symbol in an officially > > > ported FBSD package. Can anyone give me some insight into this problem, and > > > a possible solution? TIA for any help you can give me. > > > > Best guess would be that you installed from packages rather than > > ports, and the packages were in some way mismatched. Installing > > software from ports avoids this risk, but with packages you should be > > able to get them all from one place and have it work. > > > > I thought that might be the problem, too, so I uninstalled the package, then > built the port of tcl8.3. It didn't make any difference; the libtcl8.3 > library still had the undefined symbol.
I would have expected that you would need to rebuild the libtcl port... > There's something odder happening here; a check inside the libraries for > tcl8.0, 8.2, and 8.4 all show that "__xuname" is a symbol in all of them. > Since it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere, I'm stumped as to how to > proceed to get around this problem. Is anyone else having this problem > running tcl/tk programs of _any_ recent vintage? For what it's worth, I'm not. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"