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Re: Fwd: SIMSUPER problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 10 16:19:56 2001
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To: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:17:25 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:19:51 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi. I've looked at the provided test program, and I think the problem
might be with the way it's linked. In the directory Craig prepared,
there is a script "makeSim" which links the program with:
gcc -I/mit/motif/include/Xm/ test.c -L/mit/motif/sun4lib/ -lXm -lMu -lWcm -lMrm -lXt -lX -o SIMSUPER
This link line is problematic for two reasons:
1. It uses the libraries in /mit/motif/sun4lib, which date back to
1993. Although Solaris backward compatibility is pretty good for
whole programs, relying on backward compatibility for object files
from eight years ago is probably not a very good idea.
2. It uses the Wcm library. I'm not sure what it is, but it's not
in a modern Motif implementation and I hope it's not necessary
for the actual simsuper program. The Mu library is also not part
of Motif; it's an Athena-ism and isn't necessary for the test
program.
I notice the test program also does an #include <Xm.h>, which should
be #include <Xm/Xm.h>.
Linking against modern Motif libraries (which are under /usr/dt on
Solaris, and are under /usr/athena on Linux; IRIX requires no special
include or library declarations) might correct the problem. I was
unable to reproduce the problem using the test program, though, so I
can't be sure.
