Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > to pay attention to every error message. Nevertheless when starting > X (I still prefer to boot in console mode), I get some error messages > I quote: > (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a > Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No > symbols found > Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No > symbols found > Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No > symbols found > Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": > No symbols found > (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 > -- > (II) LoadModule: "speedo" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a > Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols > found > (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.1 > > Question: What are the reasons for these. And are these of any consequence ?
The reason: X links in modules at runtime. The modules in questions (which are in 'ar' format (.a), merely a simple archive of .o files), contain some .o files with no exported names. To see, use: 'nm usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a' , and look for spencode.o. This means that the linker have no use for them, and they are just dropped. This is reported as a warning, because it might be an indication of some bug (or maybe just to remind the programmers to remove unneeded sources from their makefile). consequences: Specificly, I can tell you that the GLCore thing does not have any effect (OpenGL acceleration works fine for me) - the dropped .o's seem to be some debugging thingy (prbly all their funcs were #ifdef'ed out). I don't use speedo fonts, but I'm guessing the libspeedo thing is similiarly harmless (some unused "encode" funcs?). The issue was marked as a minor bug against xserver-xfree86: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178210%3A However, unstable only recently switched to x.org (6.8.2 now - but I'm still holding it back to xfree86) - so until the smoke settles down I don't believe anyone would have a look at it anytime soon (if at all). Amit ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
