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From: drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (David R. Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  dependancy errors
Message-ID: <9006301745.AA01995@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 90 17:45:09 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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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'...)
>>-- 
>>David Elliott
>>dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
>>(408)944-4073
>>"If I had a hat the size of Oklahoma, I'd be a happy person."
>>

Good answer, and more detailed than mine.  I was just pointing out that
the library definition used for compilation/linking, e.g.

	LinkLibs = -lXaw -lXt

and the library definition used for dependencies, e.g.

	DependencyLibs = libXaw.a libXt.a

have different (though parallel) formats and should not
interchanged.

	 David