"Dave (Grizz) Glaser" <dsglaser_at_mtu.edu> writes:
> <snip>
> >
> > Sure it helps.
> >
> > The linker (ld) is looking at your archive (libXpm.a) and
> > saying its not a valid archive for the platform your are on.
> >
> > There could be lots of causes:
> >
> > . when you downloaded, you didn't download using binary mode.
> > . The file you downloaded is not the one your OS or OS version uses.
> >
> > Tell use what OS you are using, and the steps you followed,
>
> Actually, it seems that somehow configure is looking at the libXpm.a file in
> /usr/dept/R6/lib rather than the new version of libXpm.a in /usr/dept/xpm/lib
> . Is there anyway to convince configure to get the right one? It is like it i
> s not taking my config options.
Looking thru your earlier mail, I don't see how you ran configure.
You can try the way I do it:
./configure \
--x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dept/xpm/lib\
--with-xpm-includes=/usr/dept/xpm/include \
--with-xpm-library=/usr/dept/xpm/lib
or re-read the section in INSTALL.fvwm where it shows how to set LDFLAGS.
> I am trying to build on solaris 2.7
>
> >
> > -or-
> >
> > look in INSTALL.fvwm which points you to a source distribution of
> > xpm, and download and build it yourself.
>
> I downloaded the binary version from the distribution in the install.fvwm fil
> e.
>
> >
> > Another way to check the validity of an archive is:
> >
> > nm /usr/dept/R6/lib/libXpm.a
>
> This gives me a bunch of errors, but if I do it on /usr/dept/xpm/lib/libXpm.a
> it seems to work correctly.
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Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 14:13:42 BST