Re: GTK+ on SunOS 4.1.4?

["Dugas, Alan" <alan dugas analog com>]

> BINGO!!!  Per your suggestion, I downloaded and installed X11R5 locally.
> However,  when I tried to dynamically compile the application I  ran into the
> following error message; "ls.so: warning: /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4.3 has
> older revision than expected".  The fix I found for this was to PREpend the
> path to the local X11R5 installation to the environmental variable
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH prior to compiling.  Unforturnately, it is also required for
> an end user have this prepended to their LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well.  Many thanks
> for your insight and advice on X11 and SunOS 4.1.4, Valadis!
> 
> 
> 
> 				-- Alan Dugas
> 
> P.S.
> Ideally I'd like to statically compile this program and eliminate messing with
> an end user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  However, when statically compiling I get the
> following error message;
> "ld: Undefined symbol
> 	_dlsym
> 	_dlopen
> 	_dlclose
> 	_dlerror
> collect2: ls returned 2 exit status".
> Any thoughts on what might be causing this?
> 
> ----------
> From: 	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu[SMTP:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> Reply To: 	gtk-list@redhat.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:44 PM
> To: 	gtk-list@redhat.com
> Subject: 	[gtk-list] Re: GTK+ on SunOS 4.1.4?
> 
> On Wed, 03 May 2000 19:14:37 EDT, "Dugas, Alan" <alan.dugas@analog.com>  said:
> > Just in case somebody's taken an interest in my problem compiling GTK+ on
> SunOS
> > 4.1.4...
> > 
> > I've traced my problems to an X11 header file: Xlib.h.  It appears that the
> > SunOS version is dated 1991 and the Solaris version is 1997.  The absent in
> the
> > 1991 version but present in 1997 version are typedefs for both XIM and
> XFontSet,
> > which are causing my problems.  However, comments grepped from file
> > gtk+-1.2.7/configure explicitly mention SunOS 4.1.4 and even 4.1.1!  This
> leads
> > me to think that there is something (a configuration switch maybe?) that I
> am
> > missing in order to compile GTK+ under SunOS 4.1.4.  Any thoughts or
> comments on
> 
> OK.. this is "dim dark past" in my career, but I seem to remember that
> early SunOS systems (4.0, 4.1) shipped with X11R3 or X11R4.  XIM (the
> X Input Method) stuff certainly post-dates that, as does XFontSet (which
> is part of the I18N stuff done in X11R5, I believe).  I'm willing to bet
> that if you've ever gotten *ANY* X program to build, you're at X11R4 (as R3
> was different "on the wire").
> 
> The reason 'configure' checks for SunOS 4.1.x is because it *IS*
> possible to take the MIT or x.org X11R5 or X11R6 distribution and
> build it on SunOS 4.  The sample XSun server even supports some
> of the more common cfb cards from that era.  Since the on-the-wire
> protocols for X11R4 through X11R6 are the same, it's even possible
> to just build the X11R6 user-land stuff (libraries, programs, and
> include files) and run against a Sun-supplied X11R4 server (as long as the
> program doesn't require an X Extension that isn't in the server).
> 
> Solution?  Get up to X11R5/R6, either by building the X tree yourself
> (which is lengthy, and takes a lot of disk, but is NOT very hard
> if you carefully follow the cookbook provided), or upgrading to
> a Sun or Linux operating system that comes with a suitable X....
> 
> 				Valdis Kletnieks
> 				Operating Systems Analyst
> 				Virginia Tech
> 
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