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From: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
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Subject: Re: Can motif programs in C++ be written for RS/6000?
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Date: 1 Apr 91 18:04:48 GMT
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[... talk of executing a program and getting 'cannot load libXXX.a, incorrect
format' deleted ...]

What has probably happened is that you have linked with a shared library that
is not in the 'standard' place i.e. /lib or /usr/lib.  When you go to run the
program, the loaded can't find the library and bails out.  Unfortunately it
sometimes reports the wrong library as the one it couldn't find or that was
in the 'wrong format'.

The solution is to use the -L switch when compiling.  This basically adds
another directory to the path searched for shared libraries.  So if the R4
libraries were in /usr/local/lib, you would add "-L/usr/local/lib -lX11" to
use /usr/local/lib/libX11.a instead of /usr/lib/libX11.a.

To see if this will work, you could also set LIBPATH to
/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib and try re-running the program.  If that works,
then recompiling should help.

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These are my opinions, not IBM's etc etc etc