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From: bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com (Bruce Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xtank for C-programming competition on Sun-4's
Message-ID: <615@dg.dg.com>
Date: 9 Jul 90 16:44:58 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.165411.2512@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1685@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1990Jul6.211251.7638@eng.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Jul6.211251.7638@eng.umd.edu>, stripes@eng.umd.edu
(Joshua Osborne) writes:
|> In article <1685@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
mcross@pennies.sw.stratus.com (Matt Cross) writes:
|> >ld: /lib/libX11.a(__.SYMDEF): rd_shsb: can't read struct dynamic for
|> >shared library /lib/libX11.a
|> >
|> >But, here's the command line that xtank passed to ld:
|> >
|> >/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).
|> -- 

  Does this mean that there is a newer version of xtank?  If so, where can
it be found?

						Bruce (bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com)