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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  dependancy errors
Message-ID: <1990Jun30.030539.6939@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 30 Jun 90 03:05:39 GMT
References: <9006291531.AA28791@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <9006291531.AA28791@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (David R. Linn) writes:
>Mistaken jump in logic.  It doesn't say you don't have libXaw.o;
>it says you don't have a file named "-lXaw".  Someone has
>overloaded the $(LIBS) macro for use in both compilation/linking
>and in dependencies.

While that's possible, it's as likely (and maybe more so) that the
Imakefile in question is written using LOCAL_LIBRARIES and worked under
R3.  In R4, there is a new macro called DEPLIBS, which is set to
$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES) by default, unless you are running shared libraries
on a Sun.  As Guy Harris once pointed out, it probably shouldn't
be set to anything by default, and there may be an official MIT
patch changing this, but I couldn't find it (Guy?  Bob?).  I know
I changed it in mine and it works fine.

The easiest fix is to define DEPLIBS as being empty, but it might be
more correct to define it like LOCAL_LIBRARIES, with "DEP" prepended
to each library name, as in

	DEPLIBS = $(DEPXAWLIB) $(DEPXMULIB) $(DEPXTOOLLIB) $(DEPXLIB)

or, better still,

	DEPLIBS = XawClientDepLibs

(Note:  I did try to mail this answer to the original poster, but it
bounced somewhere down the line.  Rassin' frassin' network frassin'...)
-- 
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