On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 11:02 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tony wrote: > > > Recently (but I'm not sure when) my supposedly Motif gvim started > > getting compiled without GUI. Examination of the config log showed the > > following lines: > > > > checking --enable-gui argument... Motif GUI support > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > > checking for location of Motif GUI includes... in default path > > checking --with-motif-lib argument... no > > checking for location of Motif GUI libs... <not found> > > > > After some trial and error, I found out that by changing just one line > > in my environment settings, as follows: > > > > from: export CONF_OPT_GUI='--enable-gui=motif' > > to: export CONF_OPT_GUI='--enable-gui=motif --with-motif-lib=-lXm' > > > > (and doing no other changes), then sourcing the configure script again > > in the same shell to overwrite the environment values set by the > > previous version of the same script, and running "make reconfig", its > > --version output told me this time "Tiny version with X11-Motif GUI". > > The relevant lines in the config log are now > > > > checking --enable-gui argument... Motif GUI support > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > > checking for location of Motif GUI includes... in default path > > checking --with-motif-lib argument... -lXm > > > > Is this expected? If just specifying that the Motif lib is named libXm > > (without mentioning a directory) makes configure find it, I would have > > expected it to already know that. Or is that name nonstandard? > > It's not about the lib name, it's about finding the library to link > with. A sequence of directories are checked for: > libXm.a > libXm.dll.a > libXm.so* > libXm.sl > libXm.dylib > > Perhaps the name of the library changed? On my system I can find > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXm.a > > The check hasn't changed for a long time. It can be found in > src/configure.ac around line 2960.
According to the YaST installer, openSUSE Tumbleweed package libXm4 titled "Motif runtime library" installs (only) files /usr/lib64/libXm.so.4 and /usr/lib64/libXm.so.4.0.4 so I did pushd /usr/lib64 ls -l libXm* which answered lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 23:38 libXm.so -> libXm.so.4.0.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 23:38 libXm.so.4 -> libXm.so.4.0.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3021784 Mar 19 23:38 libXm.so.4.0.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 19 23:28 libXmu.so -> libXmu.so.6.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 19 23:28 libXmu.so.6 -> libXmu.so.6.2.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113936 Mar 19 23:28 libXmu.so.6.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 19 23:28 libXmuu.so -> libXmuu.so.1.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 19 23:28 libXmuu.so.1 -> libXmuu.so.1.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22568 Mar 19 23:28 libXmuu.so.1.0.0 I think only the first three lines in this list are relevant. IOW on my system there are three files answering to /usr/lib64/libXm.so* in your list, two of which are soft links to the third one. IIUC by giving configure the argument --with-motif-lib=-lXm it doesn't search for the lib but just passes -lXm to the linker, which finds /usr/lib64/libXm.so -> libXm.so.4.0.4 and happily uses that (as it should) to find the Motif entry points. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXt8WC4rPt-hhmTYxYrDwO42p59sxMuqCCR4C35ay0wSkg%40mail.gmail.com.
