Re: [Plplot-devel] Splitting off libpltcl and greatly simplifying library linking options

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Jo=E3o Cardoso writes:
 > On Saturday 20 July 2002 00:40, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > ...
 > |
 > | I believe this new linking scheme should work for all modern Linux=

 > | dynamic loaders.
 >=20
 > This doesn't mean that others unices will be forgeted, does it?
 >=20
 > |  (Just for the record, my dynamic loader
 > | /lib/ld-2.2.5.so from Debian woody is part of the libc6-2.2.5
 > | package.) However, if I recall correctly there was some evidence i=
n
 > | the past that Joao's older patched SuSe distribution had different=

 > | linking requirements.  So Joao and others, please test the latest =
CVS
 > | on your various Linux distributions starting from a fresh checkout=

 > | from CVS.
 >=20
 > As I told before, suse-7.2 don't have tkInt.h and other tkInt.h=20
 > dependent header files.

It's not in the default Tcl/Tk tarball install either.  What exactly is=
 needed
from these files?  If it's just function prototypes, then no problem, j=
ust
compile without all the prototypes in place.  You can do configure magi=
c
to use them *if* found.  OTOH, if what you need is a structure definiti=
on,
then the problem is harder to work around.

 > Trying to follow the the tkwin receipt gives:
 >=20
 > [jcard@feup] wish
 > % load libplplotd.so.5.1.0 Plplotter
 > couldn't load file "libplplotd.so.5.1.0": libplplotd.so.5.1.0: canno=
t=20
 > open shared object file: No such file or directory
 >=20
 > % load libplplotd.so Plplotter
 > couldn't find procedure Plplotter_Init
 > ...

I've been unable to get this stuff to work either.

--=20
Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (=
RIST)