FVWM: Build with gcc not working

From: Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:08:57 -0400

>>>>> Luke Skywalker, with all his wealth, protested:
>>>>> "All go shopping at the words of the human Michael Kirby!"

    Michael> What I get is undefined symbols for GetFont OrFixed,
    Michael> CachePicture, and InitPictureCMap.

    Michael> All of these are defined in ../libs/libfvwm.a

    Michael> the compile line has gcc -o fvwm <bunch o ofiles> -O
    Michael> -L/usr/openwin/lib -L../libs -lfvwm -lXpm ....

    Michael> it doesn't seem to be finding the -lfvwm from the search
    Michael> path. If I hardcode the ../libs/libfvwm.a file in the
    Michael> list of object files it links without a problem.

    Michael> What gives? I supposed I could hand edit all the
    Michael> makefiles for all the modules and make it work, but I
    Michael> must be missing something crucial here.

BOY this is confusing, isn't it ;) ? Please remove your old
libfvwm2.a in wherever libraries go, /usr/X11R?/libfvwm2.a,
/usr/lib/X11/libfvwm2.a! The library interface has changed.

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Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa
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