[Xastir] OSX Build - long

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:54:26AM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jpronans at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2010/msg01199.php
> For some reason that doesn't open here, so you'll have to enlighten me.

Odd.

Ok, it's a message from a mailing list for a product called EPICS 
(Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) where a person
has said they got prexactly the error message you reported, on OSX, when 
building OpenMotif from source and trying to use it.

The answer contains:

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The error dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: occurs when a library has not been explicitly loaded during link time. I solved the problem adding to the linker,  /usr/bin/c++ -o medm blah ... -lca -lCom -lXm -lXt -lXmu ... the library -lXft . I can now save my displays without a crash. If you compile openmotif from source, you should be aware that Xft lives in its own library. Perhaps this should be noted in the MEDM README. 
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Specifically, the line that caught my eye was the one that mentions it's
a function of building OpenMotif from source on OSX (I guess somehow the
dependency of the shared library on libXft isn't caught when linking, but
that the folks who package OpenMotif for Fink or MacPorts somehow figured out 
a way to handle that?).


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