On 27-Apr-01 at 05:42, Alexander Mai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:55:35PM -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> > On 26-Apr-01 at 16:44, Alexander Mai ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:00:57AM -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> > > > On 26-Apr-01 at 05:52, Alexander Mai
> > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just applied some patches
> > > > to lib/Xlt build mechanism. >
> > > > > 1) drop libtool-based dependency on libXt and similar.
> > > > > Unless we use new libtool which finally link share libs against
> > > > > some libfoo.la we can not use this.
> > > >
> > > > Why?? I can see a problem adding Xm to the dependancies, but what is
> > > > the problem with the already installed libs??
> > > >
> > >
> > > The problem is that to link against/depend on e.g. libXt
> > > you need to specify -L/usr/X11R6/lib which is
> > > exactly the place where some other libXm resides.
> > > Actually this hurts my quite often. Well, not anymore :-)
> >
> > Well I really don't like this reason. Just so the examples will build
> > with LessTif is _not_ a good reason to break builds on Solaris and HP.
> > After all, Xlt _is_ a Motif extension library, not a LessTif extension
> > library. If Xlt is picking up a _real_ Motif on a platform that has it
> > installed, it is doing _exactly_ what it should be doing, and shouldn't be
> > crippled because of it!!!
>
> I'm not sure whether I dropped a bit too much, but I'm not talking
> about some strange problems on some strange system ...
> I'm talking about doing crap while building:
>
> The previous version was doing things completly wrong as I outlined:
> it picked up some Motif which it shouldn't which is wrong
> and it was even giving the wrong order while linking.
> Also why do you assume "real Motif" is waiting in /usr/X11R6/lib?
> Many linux systems feature an ancient LessTif version there!
Because AC_FIND_MOTIF found it could compile and link with nothing more than
the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS needed to compile and link X. If you don't want it to
search, or it finds one that you don't want to use, specify them with
--with-motif-includes=DIR and --with-motif-libraries=DIR.
>
> But I just got a libtool 1.4 announcement. Time to have a look at this
> stuff again ...
>
>
> --
> Alexander Mai
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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