[Swarm-Support] Leopard Compilation from scratch

[Bill Northcott]

From the discussions on the Apple-X11 users list, the new X11 was  
not quite baked for the Leopard release date and has some issues that  
may be biting us.  Apparently one engineer was trying to do the whole  
new X11 build from new sources in his spare time!

> Abe Stephens wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm encountering a linking problem whenever I attempt to link to
> > X11's libGL in Leopard.
> >
> > Here is a concise example:
> >
> >
> > > echo 'static void *foo; int main() { foo = (void *) 
> > > glGetIntegerv; }' |
> > > g++ -xc++ - -I/usr/X11R6/include -includeGL/gl.h -L/usr/X11R6/lib  
> > > -lGL
> > > ld: cycle in dylib re-exports with /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > Does anyone have some advice on how to fix this?
>
> This is a new feature (AKA bug) in /usr/bin/ld, coupled with the fact
> that Apple rather stupidly chose the same name "libGL.dylib" for two
> linked but different libraries in /usr/X11/lib and in the OpenGL  
> framework.
>
> A fix is described here:
> <http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/ 
> Fink:Packaging:Preparing_for_10.5#OpenGL_Bug>
>
> Please file a bug on bugreport.apple.com.

I suggest you file a bug report.  The more they get, the quicker it  
will be fixed.

Bill

On 29/10/2007, at 10:22 PM, ALESSANDRO PERRONE wrote:

> Hi
>   Your binaries run perfectly on Leopard, at least the objective-c  
> libraries.
> The java libs give problems on dylyd.
> Marcus suggest me to compile from scratc.
> I downloaded the tcl/tk/blt. Tcl/tk compilation is fine, but blt not.
> When I try to ./configure --host=apple-powerpc the system says he  
> cannot find the tcl library, even if i give the right path.
> Have you a good tar archive of source of  blt?