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From: devil@techunix.BITNET (Gil Tene)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xtank for C-programming competition on Sun-4's
Message-ID: <9741@discus.technion.ac.il>
Date: 7 Jul 90 20:02:37 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.165411.2512@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1685@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1990Jul6.211251.7638@eng.umd.edu>
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Reply-To: devil%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Gil Tene)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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In article <1990Jul6.211251.7638@eng.umd.edu> stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborn
e) writes:
>In article <1685@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> mcross@pennies.sw.stratus.com (Matt C
ross) writes:
>>
>>/bin/ld -x -N -A ~mcross/xwins/xtank/xtank.exe -T (some address) -o
>>/tmp/xtank.output ~mcross/xwins/xtank/Programs/DJCmove.o -lm -lc >
>>/tmp/xtank.error 2>&1
>>
>>It doesn't include xtank in the libraries!  Might it have something to
>>do with the -A option - xtank.exe uses libX11.a... HELP!
>
>It failed because you linked xtank with a shared lib, the version of xtank
>you are useing was built before shared libs were available, so it can't parse
>the headder info.  (That is no excuse for the Beta version, but that doesn't
>yet understand this stuff either).
>--
This link to a dynamic shared lib can be fixed using "-Bstatic" in the
"ld -A" line. This tells the ld to link using non-sharable libs only...
(I have no experience with xtank, but this fixed something else
 with a similar problem)

Gil.
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