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From: cameron@usage.csd.oz (Cameron Simpson,Uhmmm..???? Who knows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: dumb question about libgl.a and openwin()...
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Date: 1 Oct 90 14:23:30 GMT
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From article <1990Sep27.160601.14614@odin.corp.sgi.com>, by bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett):
| In article <861@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Cameron Simpson) writes:
|>When I try to run the 4D verion on the PI it says
|>	Unable to map GM DRAM: No such device
|>When I try to run the PI version on the 4D it says
|>	Unable to map FIFO: No such device
|>How do I make a binary which will run on both?
| 
| You have to link with the shared library version of the GL, libgl_s.a.
| Jim Bennett			(bennett@esd.sgi.com)

Yes, this was the reason. Within a day of posting my query I received
replies from half a dozen people, all (like Mr Bennett, above) from
within SGI. Many thanks! I'll crawl back under my rock now...
	- Cameron Simpson
	  cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au