[csw-maintainers] problems linking to libs with X11 dependencies

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:13 AM, John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I having problems rebuilding the graphviz plugins that use -lgs and -lgd
> because of an unresolved symbol in /lib/libX11.so.4, but I don't understand
> why /lib/libX11.so.4 is being pulled in?   I think this is a new problem
> because graphviz built with the gd plugin a few weeks ago.
>...

I would guess you're correct about that.



> This fails on build8s with:
>
>    /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -o conftest -xO3 -xarch=v8
> -I/opt/csw/X11/include -I/opt/csw/include -xarch=v8 -L/opt/csw/X11/lib
> -L/opt/csw/lib conftest.c -lgs  -ldl -lm
>    "conftest.c", line 5: warning: statement not reached
>    Undefined                       first referenced
>         symbol                             in file
>    XSolarisIASetProcessInfo            /lib/libX11.so.4
>    ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest


well, there's two things going on there:

1. something "hidden" would appear to be linking against libX11

2. since it is, and it appears to require the newer version, you'll
have to force -R/opt/csw/X11/lib, as well as that -L line.