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From: dan@IBM.COM (Walt Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Shared Motif libraries on RISC System/6000
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:51:55 GMT
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>Has anyone made shared Motif 1.1.1 libraries on an IBM RS/6000?
>Jalovaara

It is a known problem and being worked on. The problem appears
to be that there is a Vendor.c in both Xt and Xm and the wrong one
is used because of the shared library implementation.

I am not enough of an expert on Xt to be sure but roughly what has to
be done is similar to what SUN has done to solve their shared library
problems.  You have to hook Vendor.c in Xt and create an additional
pointer to the pointer to the vendor class stuff.  You also have to
hook XtToolkitInitialize to put the right address in that pointer.
You then need to build a shared Xt that has sharedlib.c marked as
unshared. If this hint is enough to get it working let me know.
If it is flawed I would also be interested.

I will in fact try to generate and test such a solution sometime after
next week.  If I solve the problem I will give the solution to the
product people.  Meanwhile the "real" product people are also working
on the problem.

You should report the problem though your normal problem reporting
process, 1-800-237-5511 (you need to know your customer number).
That way you should get notified when a fix is available.

Walt Daniels
IBM Research (not part of the product division)