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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Problems installing on Sun4
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Date: 23 Aug 90 19:54:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 23 Aug 90 17:23:29 GMT

In article <3940@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
   >writes: Why doesn't the documentation mention that this [linking
   >runapp statically] is necessary?  Is there something odd about my
   >case, such that it works for most people without compiling
   >statically?

   I suspect there may be, 'cuz I've not had problems with dynamically
   linking "runapp".  Perhaps there's a compiler problem (as would be
   strongly suggested by the fact that turning the optimizer off seems to
   make the problem go away)?

Interesting.  So dynamic loading (ATK-style) works for some people
with Sun-4's, and not for others.  How about a survey:  Mail me your
site.h and site.mcr, operating system version, machine type
(Sparcstation 1, Sun 4-110, etc.), version of X11, and whether
"runapp" works for you when it's dynamically linked (it doesn't for
me, it does for Guy.)  I'll look through these and see if I can find a
pattern.  Hopefully, this will narrow down the range of places to
look for the problem.

Carl Witty
cwitty@cs.stanford.edu