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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Xt not calling not calling Motif Vendor Initialize on RS/6000?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 21:48:18 GMT
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> it supposed to know?  Is it a simple matter of -lXm being first on the
> command line & hence those Vendor.o symbols winning the race?  If so, could
> the IBM linker be doing me a dirty?

Could be.  There are two versions of the routines, one in Xt and one in Xm.
You definitely need the Xm one.  This was a problem for me because I was
making them Apollo global libraries and it didn't appreciate having two
identically named entry points in the global name space.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.