Hi Roberts,
On 27 Jul 2005 21:21:33 you wrote:
When xorg is compiled find libXau.a and libXdmcp.a. Try something like
this:
mkdir /tmp/tmpstuff
cd /tmp/tmpstuff
ar -x /path/to/libXau.a
gcc -shared -o libXau.so *.o
install libXau.so /usr/X11R6/lib
and repeat that with libXdmcp.a (after clearing the tmpstuff directory).
The 'ar -x' will disassemble the static library and output the object
files, gcc will relink them as a shared object. Then hack kdebase to use
libXau.so, if needed
I did the above. It is successful. There are no warnings in 'configure'
output of kdebase-3.4.1, this time. The libXau.so and libXdmcp.so are
installed in /usr/X11R6/lib dir. There was no need to 'hack' 'configure'.
Everything worked without that. The output of the commands is as below:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ar -x /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXau.a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# gcc -shared -o /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXau.so
*.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ls
AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o AuLock.o AuRead.o
AuUnlock.o AuWrite.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ls /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXau.so
/p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXau.so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# install /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXau.so
/usr/X11R6/lib
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ar -x /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXdmcp.a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# gcc -shared -o
/p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXdmcp.so *.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ls /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXdmcp.so
/p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXdmcp.so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# install /p/xcbuild/exports/lib/libXdmcp.so
/usr/X11R6/lib
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ls /usr/X11R6/lib
libXau.so libXdmcp.so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff# ls
A8Eq.o Alloc.o DA16.o DecKey.o IncKey.o RAofA8.o RHead.o RaA8.o
WA32.o WC32.o Wraphelp.o
AA16.o AofA8.o DA32.o Fill.o RA16.o RC16.o RR.o RaAoA8.o
WA8.o WC8.o
AA32.o CA8.o DA8.o Flush.o RA32.o RC32.o RaA16.o Unwrap.o
WAofA8.o Whead.o
AA8.o CmpKey.o DAofA8.o GenKey.o RA8.o RC8.o RaA32.o WA16.o
WC16.o Wrap.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmpstuff#
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Should this same treatment be followed for other eight '*.a' files which we
removed after installation of xorg? And what about other such files in other
packages which we have been removing in various packages? Can those also be
treated likewise in order to get full support for installation of other
applications that may be requiring them?
I can see that HLFS is still in a formative state and lots of progress has
already been made. There are, however, some packages which need
experimenting. For example, i got the following error while compiling
mozilla-1.7.8 on P3 laptop. Even changed mozilla version and tried but same
error:
-Wl,../../../build/unix/gnu-ld-scripts/components-version-script
-Wl,-Bsymbolic -ldl -lm
chmod +x libuconv.so
strip libuconv.so
/p/mozilla/config/nsinstall -R -m 755 libuconv.so
../../../dist/gre/components
../../../dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc ../../../dist/gre/components/libuconv.so
Couldn't GC any strings, exiting.
/p/mozilla/config/nsinstall -R -m 755 libuconv.so
../../../dist/lib/components
../../../dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc ../../../dist/lib/components/libuconv.so
Couldn't GC any strings, exiting.
/p/mozilla/config/nsinstall -R -m 755 libuconv.so
../../../dist/bin/components
../../../dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc ../../../dist/bin/components/libuconv.so
Couldn't GC any strings, exiting.
+++ making chrome /p/mozilla/intl/uconv/src =>
../../../dist/bin/chrome/en-US.jar
/usr/bin/zip: error while loading shared libraries: cannot make segment
writable for relocation: Permission denied
Error invoking zip: 127 at ../../../config/make-jars.pl line 182, <STDIN>
line 2.
make[4]: *** [libs] Error 9
make[4]: Leaving directory `/p/mozilla/intl/uconv/src'
make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/p/mozilla/intl/uconv'
make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/p/mozilla/intl'
make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/p/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/p/mozilla#
To me this error seems to be due to HLFS environment. I have no clues about
this though.
Can there be a workround this one? I have installed HLFS on another computer
also. That is a P4 PC. Mozilla did install on that computer without any
errors but is not working. It just gives a glimer of its window outline on
the desktop and disappears.
Thanks and Regards.
Randhir Phagura
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