re trouble compiling x r on sunos epstein trwacs fp trw com jeremy epstein writes dmm head cfa harvard edu david meleedy writes description of compiling problems deleted gcc fpcc struct return o bmtoa bmtoa o o funroll loops l lib xmu lxmu l lib xt l extensions lib l lib x l afs cfa syste m sun c usr head lib x x r ld undefined symbol xgetvisualinfo xfree xinternatom etc there s a bug in sunos which is alluded to in the faq although there it s talking about x r as being affected you need to force libxmu to be linked statically rather than dynamically which works around the linker error the simplest thing to do is edit each of the makefiles where there s a failure and change the line which reads xmulib l xmusrc lxmu to xmulib l xmusrc bstatic lxmu bdynamic no this is only relevant for openwindows x as shipped with sunos it is not relevant for mit r mit r should compile without problems casper
