Athena widgets and Debian (suggested revision)

Daniel> This could be documented in the PROBLEMS file like this: Daniel> *** Messages about dynamic symbols changing size Daniel> When XEmacs is built dynamically linked to the flat Athena Daniel> widget library but it finds a 3D Athena variant with the Daniel> same name at runtime. This can be solved with the Daniel> xaw-wrappers package under Debian and by checking the Daniel> runtime path in /etc/ld.so.conf under other distributions. Good but too brief, I think. In particular, people who build XEmacs themselves won't necessarily know how to use xaw-wrappers. How about *** Messages about dynamic symbols changing size Common in Linux environments, it occurs when XEmacs is built dynamically linked to the flat Athena widget library but it finds a 3D Athena variant with the same name at runtime. This can be solved with the xaw-wrappers package under Debian (register XEmacs as incompatible with all 3d widget sets, see update-xaw-wrappers(8) and .../doc/xaw-wrappers/README.packagers). It can be verified by checking the runtime path in /etc/ld.so.conf and by using `ldd /path/to/xemacs' under other Linux distributions. One solution is to use LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH to force ld.so to load the flat Athena widget library instead of the aliased 3D widget library (see ld.so(8) for use of these environment variables). Daniel> An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an Daniel> idea at all. -- Elbert Hubbard xaw-wrappers is an IDEA! -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."