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From: jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Xnext (mouse-X)
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Date: 29 Mar 91 02:36:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.212326.19805@neon.Stanford.EDU>> <SCOTT.91Mar15175911@texnext.gac.edu> <1991Mar20.130027.17254@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1991Mar20.164422.10235@eplrx7.uucp>
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In <1991Mar20.164422.10235@eplrx7.uucp> cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) writes:

>I copied Mouse-X from Stanford.  Everything appears to work ok, except
>when I try to link a program with X11.  I get undefined symbols:

>  cc test.c -lXext -lX11 -lm
>  _XErrorFunction
>  _qfree
>  _XHeadOfDisplayList
>  _Xdebug
>  _XIOErrorFunction

You need to run ranlib (you need to be root) on the X libraries. Since
the X libraries contain common symbols (which I gather is unorthodox),
you have to use the -c option to ranlib:

	# ranlib -s /usr/lib/libX*

At least that worked for me.

Jeremy Brest
Jeremy_Brest@NeXT.com
NeXT Technical Publications