[Evolution-hackers] Re: Problem of building gtkhtml

[Calvin Liu <calvin liu sun com>]

Laca,
Thanks!
You gave me a perfect explanation and pointed a right way. I took a 
quick way, just add -lX11 to LDFLAGS in that Makefile, to cover this 
issue. Now I know why it happened. Thanks again.

Calvin

Laszlo Peter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If a program uses Xlib directly, it needs to link against it explicitely.
> The Solaris linker recognises that this symbol belogns to Xlib (by looking
> at libbonoboui, which is linked to libX11) but it won't link to it
> automatically (unlike GNU ld).
>
> The solution is to add this to configure.in (if not there already):
>
> AC_PATH_XTRA
> ALL_X_LIBS="$X_LIBS $X_PRE_LIBS -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS"
> AC_SUBST(ALL_X_LIBS)
>
> and add $(ALL_X_LIBS) to the LDADD line to the binary that uses Xlib.
>
> HTH,
>
> Laca
>
> On Sun, 18 May 2003, Calvin Liu wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi, there,
> > I met a problem when build gtkhtml on solaris, it reported:
> > *Undefined first referenced
> > symbol in file
> > XSendEvent /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.a(bonobo-plug.o)
> > (symbol belongs to implicit dependency
> > /usr/lib/libX11.so.4)XSetErrorHandler
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.a(bonobo-ui-main.o) (symbol
> > belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libX11.so.4)*/*
> > */Sounds like a problem with libbonoboui?
> >
> > Then I tried the followings:
> >
> > _1. Verify if the files libbonoboui-2.so and libbonoboui-2.a are created
> > at the same time._
> > *$ ls -l /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.*
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 work staff 1030292 May 13 20:33
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.a
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 2689 May 13 20:33
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.la
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 work staff 22 May 13 20:33
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.so -> libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 work staff 22 May 13 20:33
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0 -> libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 1017064 May 13 20:33
> > /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
> > *
> > _2. See if libX11.so* was linked to libbonoboui-2.so. (Then I think that
> > means it also was linked to libbonoboui-2.a, right?)_
> > * $ ldd /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.so | grep X
> > libXext.so.0 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.0
> > libX11.so.4 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
> > *
> > _3. See if the symbol XSendEvent was referenced in libbonoboui-2.a and
> > libbonoboui-2.so_
> > *$ nm /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.so|grep XSendEvent
> > [5918] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |XSendEvent
> > $ nm /usr/dist/share/gnome-2.0/lib/libbonoboui-2.a|grep XSendEvent
> > [39] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |XSendEvent
> > *
> > Both are UNDEF!
> >
> > I'm confused what happened here.
> > 1. Why did libbonoboui-2 link to /usr/lib/libX11.so.4 but didn't
> > reference to symbol XSendEvent?
> > 2. Anyway to do further investigation?
> > 3. Any workaround?
> >
> > Thanks all!
> >
> > Calvin
> >
> >    
>
>