[248] in Athena Bugs
A bug with penplot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Mon Apr 25 11:21:46 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 88 11:20:35 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem:penplot
Name of person who discovered the bug: Prof. Slater
Their MIT phone number:
Their MIT address:
Their Athena Login ID: jhslater
Name of consultant reporting bug: carla
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
****** Here was Prof. Slater's OLC question..
What is the current link line for using penplot in a C application?
I was told that there are some 'fixes' which need to be attached for 5.5T
I would normally use the folloing under X11
cc cfile.c /usr/athena/lib/libpenplot.a -lX -l{F,I,U}77 -lm
Thanks
John Slater
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** I sent him the stock answer, which says, in part:
Then when compiling use:
cc -o file file.c -L/mit/fixes/vaxlib -lpenplot -lX -l{F,I,U}77 -lm
(The "-L" flag indicates to search for libraries in the specified
directory first.)
****** HE sent back this message:
BTW - why don't they simply update the library in
/usr/athena/lib/libpenplot.a. The -L/mit/fixes/vaxlib ONLY affects
the search for -lpenplot, so it is probably less confusing to the
novice to simply say:
use /mit/fixes/vaxlib/libpenplot.a
instead of -L/mit/fixes/vaxlib -lpenplot
(does the same thing, but -L is less well known option for cc)
-John
****** I told him I'd send his suggestion to the appropriate people,
so this is my attempt to do that....
Thanks!
Carla
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