Re: configure library omission, xemacs-21.4.8, Mandrake Linux 8.1

Glenn> The 'configure' script omits a critical library during the Glenn> check for 'dlopen' when invoked with Glenn> configure '--with-dialogs=motif' Glenn> The library Xp is omitted from the link; the compile/link Glenn> that fails is: This is apparently a misfeature of OpenMotif, at least that's the official XEmacs position: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200008/msg00024.html Martin not being around at the moment, I'd be open to a patch, as at least two reasonably expert XEmacs people argued for fixing configure. Note: I'm not going to do it myself any time soon, I don't have the expertise. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py