Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 6/7 Previous Document: 137) Why can't I link to the Xlib shape routines? Next Document: 139) TOPIC: PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge When I link a X program that I wrote on a SunOS 4.0.3 or 4.1 machine I get the error "ld.so: symbol not found _XtInherit". What you are seeing is a side-effect of a kludge in the R4 libXt.a to get Sun shared libraries working. Apparently, you can't share a function that is both called and compared, as _XtInherit is. This was handled by putting _XtInherit in the same file as a function that is always used, thereby guaranteeing that it would be loaded -- that is, in Initialize.c, where XtToolkitInitialize() and XtInitialize() reside. These routines would normally be called. You are probably seeing this error because your program is not a normal Xt-based program and does not call XtToolkitInitialize() anywhere. 1) it may be a program that uses Xt functions but never opens a connection to the X server. [OSF/Motif's 1.1.0 UIL had this problem; it called XtMalloc() and other Xt functions.] The solution is to add the call to your program; the function does not have to be executed, just linked in. 2) alternatively, your program doesn't need any Xt functions and is correct in not calling XtToolkitInitialize() -- it may be an Xlib or XView program. In this case, you can remove -lXt from your link command. It should not be necessary to link the shared libraries statically, although this will certainly solve the problem. [from Jordan Hayes (now jordan@Thinkbank.COM) and Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be); 11/90] You may also see this error compiling X11R5 programs on a SunOS 4.1.3 machine; be sure to set OSTeenyVersion to 3 in the config/sun.cf file. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 6/7 Previous Document: 137) Why can't I link to the Xlib shape routines? Next Document: 139) TOPIC: PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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