Re: XFree86-4-libraries build failure

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eli Scott wrote:

> Yeah, I reformatted the entire slice, then reinstlled DragonFly, and I'm
> still getting the same problem.  I'm going to play around a bit tonight
> and see if I can massage a build out of it.  If I get it to build, I'll
> let you guys know.
>
> Thanks for your help and suggestions.
>
> -Eli

yellow# pwd
/usr/X11R6/lib
yellow# ls -l libXThrStub.so*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    16 Oct  2 12:11 libXThrStub.so -> 
libXThrStub.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5243 Oct  2 12:11 libXThrStub.so.6
yellow#
yellow# ld -lXThrStub
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXThrStub
yellow# ktrace ld -lXThrStub
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXThrStub
yellow# kdump | less
. ...
  731 ld       CALL  open(0x80ca480,0,0x1b6)
  731 ld       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libXThrStub.so"
  731 ld       RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
  731 ld       CALL  open(0x80ca480,0,0x1b6)
  731 ld       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libXThrStub.a"
  731 ld       RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
. ...

hum, maybe I'll make a symlink for the dumb linker

yellow# cd /usr/lib
yellow# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 ./libXThrStub.so
yellow# ld -lXThrStub
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not 
setting start address
yellow#


Now you can compile your XFree-4 port......

-DR