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Thought that someone here might find this message useful. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FVWM95] Taskbar plugins Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 10 Nov 1998 10:43:38 -0500 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wim delvaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "÷ÉËÔÏÒ ÷ÉÓÌÏÂÏËÏ×" wrote: > > SInce all other modules work except CheckLockModule and MainCheckModule I > think there > might be a problem with the environment that these modules require. (Eg. > directories, ...) > Perhaps you should check the options for these modules ( Manual pages ?) > and/or the sources to see > what these modules need ... The problem (I coached him through this in private email) was that the taskbar makefile was not written properly - it happened to work in a libc5 linux environment, but I doubt it would work anywhere else (maybe it would work on certain i386 *BSD variants too). Specifically, it didn't work in a libc6 linux environment, which is what Debian 2.0 uses. We got around it by compiling with "-O2", which happened to work in a libc6 environment (but again, whether or not this would work anywhere else is an open question). The real fix (which I didn't discover until I tried to get fvwm95 compiled on Solaris) is to compile the .so files with the options "-lc -fpic -shared"; this is how other shared libraries that are loaded dynamically are built. (I think) If fvwm95 were currently being maintained, I would submit my patch to the makefile; unfortunately there is no one to submit a patch to, since the original author is no longer working on this at all. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Pascal Users: To show respect for the 313th anniversary (tomorrow) of the death of Blaise Pascal, your programs will be run at half speed. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
