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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Olivier Galibert <Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr>
Cc: XEmacs Beta List <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: b8/b9 configure fails big time on SunOS 4.1.4
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "OG" == Olivier Galibert <Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr> writes:

OG> On Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 10:02:22AM +0000, Amir J. Katz wrote:
>> I've already reported this for b8. Nobody responded. I cried under
>> my pillow, waited another week for b9 and retried. No luck this
>> time, either.

OG> Here lies the main part of the problem (I asked for the config.log by mail earlier):

OG>   dnl autodetect -lXmu
OG>   case "$opsys" in dnl SunOS4 bug workaround
OG>     sunos4* ) XE_PREPEND(-u _get_applicationShellWidgetClass -lXmu, libs_x) ;;
OG>     * ) if test -z "$with_xmu"; then
OG> 	  AC_CHECK_LIB(Xmu, XmuConvertStandardSelection, with_xmu=yes, with_xmu=no)
OG> 	fi
OG> 	if test "$with_xmu" = "no"; then
OG> 	  XE_ADD_OBJS(xmu.o)
OG> 	else
OG> 	  XE_PREPEND(-lXmu, libs_x)
OG> 	fi ;;
OG>   esac

Portability is so hard, and SunOS4 is so broken...
I suppose we'll need a special suite of tests to determine whether the 
-u _get_applicationShellWidgetClass is required on SunOS4.  I've never 
seen a SunOS4 system that didn't have this symbol in libXmu.a

Martin

