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From: moss@brl.mil (Gary S. Moss (VLD/VMB) <moss>)
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Subject: Re: Small problem with mkfontdir when building X11R4.18
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Date: 2 Nov 90 18:35:20 GMT
References: <8307@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
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In article <8307@hydra.Helsinki.FI>, kankkune@cs.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
|> 
|> I have been building X11R4 (patched up to fix-18) for sun3 on SunOS 4.1.
|> Everything went well except for a little problem in making the font
|> directories. make World produced the following error message for each of
|> the font directories:
|> 
|>    ../../.././fonts/mkfontdir/mkfontdir .
|>    ld.so: libXmu.so.4: not found
|>    *** Error code 127
|>    make: Warning: Target `all' not remade because of errors
|>    Current working directory /home/hydra/kankkune/X.V11R4/R4/mit.sun3/\
|>    fonts/bdf/misc
|> 
|> I think mkfontdir doesn't find libXmu because it was compiled with a
|> relative library directory specification:
|> 
|>    gcc -DNOSTDHDRS -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return -o mkfontdir
|>    mkfontdir.o fontdir.o snf_util.o -O  -Bstatic -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu
|>    -Bdynamic

The problem is that "-Bstatic" is not understood by "gcc", "-static" is the
analogous option.  Unfortunately, "gcc" takes a "-B" option with arbitrary
arguments and doesn't seem to complain about ones it doesn't know about.  It
would be nice if this were fixed in the MIT config/<whatever> files.  We
probably need a CcStaticLoadingFlag variable or something.

-Gary