Re: [Fwd: Re: [Axiom-developer] Building Axiom on Slackware]

[root]

> Actually, a patch for this problem was posted a year ago (and even long before
> counting the build-improvements branch).  I was (mistakenly) under the
> impression it was applied:
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2008-05/msg00000.html
> 
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:39:45AM +0400, Igor Pashev wrote:
> >  # Loader flags
> > -LDF=" -L/usr/X11R6/lib ${XLIB}/libXpm.a "
> > +LDF=" -L/usr/X11R6/lib ${XLIB}/libXpm.so "
> 
> LDF should likely be set as in the link above so that either the static or
> dynamic lib can be used (preference to shared libs IIRC):
> 
>    LDF=" -L${XLIB} -lXpm"
> 

Steven, Igor,

I MAY BE WRONG, but as I recall, when I applied that patch it failed
to build on several systems.

Did either of you test it? How? On what system does it work?

Tim