Re: libXau.a or libXau.so: Survey.

karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) wrote: There is a variable named SharedLibXau in Project.tmpl that controls whether libXau.a or libXau.so should be built. On my RedHat Linux 6.2 box, I can see traces of this variable in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/{X11.tmp,sv3Likb.rules}. A web search for "libXau.so" shows that DEC/Compaq, at least, has built the shared version: 1) DEC OSF/1 3.0 <URL:http://www.iagu.net/docs/dec/AA-Q0R1B-TET1_html/sys_overview8.html#sh... 2) Digital Unix 4.0B <URL:http://tru64unix.compaq.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/... As for the question of library dependencies for the stuff in lib-src, here's the information I've collected for the platforms on which I've compiled XEmacs. I've always just gone in after the configure step and patched the Makefiles by hand (gulp!). (Solaris 2.6) gnuserv & gnuclient: -lsocket -lnsl -lXau movemail: -lsocket -lnsl everything else: nothing (OSF1) gnuserv & gnuclient: -ldnet_stub -lXau movemail: -ldnet_stub everything else: nothing (Linux 2.2 and Irix 6.2) gnuserv & gnuclient: -lXau everything else: nothing Since these are all system libraries, no dynamic runtime paths (-R or -rpath) need to be put into these executables, either. I've always hacked that out of the Makefile, too. -- Jerry James