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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:30:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2R xpm-3.4j port == ld: -lgnumalloc: no match
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970323080306.1096A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>
In-Reply-To: <19970323101313.NL13854@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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Excellent.  I removed the link to libgnumalloc.so.2.0, changed FreeBSD.cf
so that OSMinor/TeenyVersion is now 2/0 instead of 1/5 and re-made xpm
with no problem.  Remade fvwm2 just to be safe and no prblems there 
either. Thanks!

---- Ken

> As Kenneth R. Westerback wrote:
> 
> > When I tried to install fvwm2 from the ports collection I got with 2.2R it
> > failed while trying to install xpm. The error message at the end was
> > 
> > rm -f sxpm
> > cc -o sxpm -m486 -O2 -L/usr/X11R6/lib sxpm.o -L../lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> > -lXpm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXent -lX11 -lgnumalloc
> > ld: -lgnumalloc: no match
> 
> It should not ever attempt to link against gnumalloc.  I think this
> problem is caused by a wrong FreeBSD version indication in the Imake
> template files: they are still at FreeBSD 2.1.5 and thus believe
> gnumalloc would be required (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf).
> 
> (gnumalloc has been abandoned by the time phkmalloc got into
> operation, it was only there since it used to be much better than the
> old and rotten BSD malloc.)
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 
> 




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