Re: compiling with libc5

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>]

Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> 
> > |"> Debian happily uses some derivatives of commercial developmental suits.
> > |"> The most obvious example would be -dmotif and -smotif packages in contrib.
> > |"
> > |"OK, point taken, -smotif libg++ packagres won't be possible without
> > |"a libg++27-altdev. (Do I care? no, but others may, I agree).
> >
> > I don't think this is true. If I run a ldd on the Motif library:
> >
> > libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x401ca000)
> > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x401d7000)
> > libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40219000)
> > libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40224000)
> > libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x402c2000)
> > libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x402cb000)

> Well, in my case I have one more line:

> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5

> and don't have libXext one. What Motif distribution are you using?

Probably MetroLink.  It does reference functions in libc, though. 

It's always a good idea to include those libraries (-lXt -lX11) on the 
command line, because there are Motif libraries out there that don't 
explicitly reference them (if I remember right, SWiM is an example).

Commercial Motif libraries (C ones) run fine with libc6. I've successfully 
compiled Amaya and Thot against libc6 with MetroLink Motif, and they run 
fine.  (Look for packages RSN.)


Also, as an aside, Amaya 1.0b edits HTML, includes support for Netscape
plug-ins and some kind of Java support, and it weighs in at 1.2MB (dyn.
linked).  Netscape 4.0b6, dynamically linked, is about 8MB. Go figure.


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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