Re: XForms: Solaris linking problem

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 1 Sep 98 08:36:38 PDT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> I recently downloaded xforms 0.88 (and 0.86, and 0.81) and was attempting
> to build another application which required it. However...the linking
> phase failed with a message:
>
> ld: elf error: file /opt/xforms/0.88/lib/libforms.a: unknown type, unable
> to process using elf(3E) libraries

Hm. I just checked and the file

ftp://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/sun/Solaris/bxform-088.tgz

looks okay to me on a Sun Ultra-60 running Solaris 5.6.

The library checks out correctly with `nm'. I don't know what you
managed to get but I don't think it's right.

spl

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