[Xastir] compile failure?

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Sat Jan 27 23:15:21 EST 2007 

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:41:14PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ke4lkq at doramefa.us> flavor, containing:
> 
> 
> Sorry about that, now what is wrong with this???
> 
> vic at linuxvid:~> locate libXm.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3.0.3
> 
> vic at linuxvid:~> ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
> ldd: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so: No such file or directory
> vic at linuxvid:~>

Try 
 ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so

It is almost certainly a symbolic link to something else.  Check to see if
*that* file exists.  If it, in turn, is a symbolic link to something else, 
repeat.

My bet is you've got a busted link somewhere.  Don't know why it doesn't screw
up the link with motif, though.

> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:36 -0700
> Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ke4lkq at doramefa.us> flavor, containing:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 3.I un #ed the line in configure.ac as you suggested
> > >   ./bootstrap.sh
> > >   ./configure
> > >   make
> > >   The executable works again....
> > 
> > I've undone the change in the repository, so you should not have to do this
> > again.
> > 
> > > 4.  Now for libXm.so , I did a 
> > >    
> > >    linuxvid:/home/vic # ldd /usr/lib/libXm.so
> > >    ldd: /usr/lib/libXm.so: No such file or directory
> > >    linuxvid:/home/vic #
> > > 
> > >  Strange...??  So I did a 
> > 
> > Nah.  Just that Ubuntu (what I have) puts the X libraries in a different spot
> > than your Suse system does. 
> > 
> > > linuxvid:/home/vic # locate libXm.so
> > >    /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
> > >    /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3
> > >    /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3.0.3
> > >    linuxvid:/home/vic #
> > >  
> > >  Then...
> > >   
> > >    linuxvid:/home/vic # ldd /usr/X11R6/libXm.so
> > >    ldd: /usr/X11R6/libXm.so: No such file or directory
> > >    linuxvid:/home/vic #
> > 
> > Jeremy already pointed this out: You typed in "/usr/X11R6/libXm.so" and locate 
> > said it was in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so -- you missed a "lib" there the second 
> > time.
> > 
> > I'm still curious what it'll say.
> > 
> > > 
> > >   Do you know what's happening here.... I sure don't
> > >  Whar blows me away is that ldd does not see libXm.so !
> > > 
> > >   But like I said above the compile works with that particular line in configure.ac
> > >  uncommentd...
> > >  
> > >  Let me know what and how to give you any additional info that you may want for this...
> > 
> > Nah.  I'll just chalk it up to a mistake to have tried to get rid of the
> > probe.  The probe's back and this problem won't surface for anyone else.
> > 
> > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:47:32 -0700
> > > Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > > Apparently your Motif library is using it and so xastir has an indirect 
> > > > > > dependence on the Xp library that other systems do not have.  It's been that
> > > > > > way for a few days and most folks have checked in to say that there has been
> > > > > > no problem.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please try looking at configure.ac at around line 113 for the following:
> > > > > > # TVR: commented this out.  It appears that XpGetDocumentData is not used
> > > > > > # *anywhere* in Xastir, and the fact that this is being probed for has 
> > > > > > # confused at least one user into thinking he needed to install the X Printing
> > > > > > # Extension library when it was completely unnecessary.
> > > > > > # AC_CHECK_LIB([Xp], [XpGetDocumentData]) 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Remove the "# " from the last line of that and re-run bootstrap.  That should
> > > > > > cause the Xp library to be linked in again when you re-configure and make.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please let us know what system you're on and what motif library you're using.
> > > > > > It's possible I need to re-enable that test, but it would be nice to do so 
> > > > > > only on systems that have Motif libraries with this dependence (otherwise
> > > > > > we're linking in stuff that isn't necessary).
> > > > 
> > > > I have re-enabled the check for Xp in the configure script and committed the
> > > > change, since it is necessary on at least one type of system.
> > > > 
> > > > You can cvs update and should be back up and running.
> > > > 
> > > > It would be nice if we didn't have to do this explicit link for all systems,
> > > > but I can't think of any quick way to probe for whether it's necessary or
> > > > not through autoconf --- I'm sure there's a way, but re-enabling the global
> > > > test is quick and painless.
> > > > 
> > > > I had disabled it in the first place because it had misled a user into 
> > > > downloading a package he didn't need (development headers in libxp-dev), but 
> > > > libxp certainly is needed by motif.  Most systems seem satisfy this dependency
> > > > without us explicitly linking -lXp, but there you have it.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > > > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > > > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
> > > >  one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
> > > >  oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
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> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
> >  one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
> >  oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
 one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
 oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick

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