Re: partial success with beta19++

gb> yesterday i checked-out the latest beta, ran configure (this is the gb> Installation file) gb> (note: --dynamic=yes --with-modules) gb> sysdll.o: In function `dll_open': gb> /home/jim/src/xemacs/src/sysdll.c:59: undefined reference to `dlopen' gb> sysdll.o: In function `dll_close': gb> /home/jim/src/xemacs/src/sysdll.c:65: undefined reference to `dlclose' gb> sysdll.o: In function `dll_function': gb> /home/jim/src/xemacs/src/sysdll.c:77: undefined reference to `dlsym' gb> sysdll.o: In function `dll_variable': gb> /home/jim/src/xemacs/src/sysdll.c:89: undefined reference to `dlsym' gb> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status this is known bug. gb> my 1st course of action was adding -ldl to the list of libraries gb> $(ld_libs_all) in src/Makefile, but this did not work (why? i did not gb> investigate) Do you have a GNUmakefile? I think it is also created during configure time and is the prefered one used during "make". gb> to get through, i pasted the offending command at the bash prompt, gb> inserted somewhere " -ldl" and built temacs. then, i restarted make gb> from the top level gb> i got a glitch when (re?)building the "finder database", a missing gb> file of sort, gb> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gb> Building finder database ... gb> xemacs exiting.Opening input file: No such file or directory, gb> /home/jim/src/xemacs/lisp/.#finder-inf.el gb> make: *** [lisp/finder-inf.el] Error 255 gb> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ interesting. do you or anyone with access to that source directory, use an old package called delete/undelete? basically if you alias rm to delete, it doesn't actually delete the file, but renames it to .#filename so you could possible do an "undelete" on it. gb> incidentally, from top i did: grep '#finder' `find .` gb> but the string #finder was nowhere in the sources...