[Kaffe] problems running kaffe on IRIX 6.2.

[Moses DeJong]

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Lee Iverson wrote:

> In message <Pine.SGI.4.05.9903051918450.19282-100000 at neon.cs.umn.edu> you write
> :
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I tried to compile and install Kaffe on an IRIX box using
> > egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release) but I had
> > some problems. First off, the configure script did not
> > seem to include my X lib directory in the shared lib path.
> > I had to do this before I could run anything.
> > 
> > 
> > % setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /soft/X11R6.3/lib
> 
> That's bizarre.  You're not using SGI's X installation then?
> 
> > Then when I ran kaffe I got this error.
> > 
> > % /tmp_mnt/project/neon/users/mo/kaffe/install/bin/kaffe
> > 19264:/tmp_mnt/project/neon/users/mo/kaffe/install/libexec/Kaffe: rld: Error:
> >  unresolvable symbol in /usr/lib32/libiflJFIF.so: __pure_virtual_called
> > 
> > 
> > That symbol is in libC.so.
> > 
> > % nm -Bo libC.so | grep pure_virtual
> > libC.so: 09a15e78 T __pure_virtual_called
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > % cd kaffe/kaffe
> > 
> > 
> > I added -lC to lib tool link line and that fixed it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Why exactly does kaffe need C++ stuff? I thought was written in C.
> > Is there something I am missing?

Your patch seemed to work for me too. I got a bunch of warinings but
it does run. This patch (or one like it) really should get added to
the CVS.

later
mo

 
> This doesn't really have anything top do with kaffe.  The problem is
> that the libiflJFIF.so library (-ljpeg) is not `closed' and requires
> -lC or -lCsup to be linked with it in order to link.  Really ugly and
> stupid and OS and Image Format Library version dependent.  In any
> case, the following configure.in patch works for me (YMMV):
> 
> diff -p -u -r1.82 configure.in
> --- configure.in        1999/03/01 19:56:59     1.82
> +++ configure.in        1999/03/06 02:44:02
> @@ -449,6 +449,9 @@ else
>    OLIBS=$LIBS
>    LIBS="$ZIP_LIBS $M_LIBS $X_LIBS $X_PRE_LIBS -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS $LIBS"
>    AC_CHECK_LIBRARY(Xext,XShmQueryExtension,X_LIBS)
> +  dnl Checks for libraries (-lCsup is necessary on some SGI systems)
> +  AC_CHECK_LIBRARY(Csup, __T_9__nothrow,JPEG_LIBS)
> +  PNG_LIBS="$JPEG_LIBS"
>    AC_CHECK_LIBRARY(jpeg,jpeg_read_header,JPEG_LIBS)
>    AC_CHECK_LIBRARY(png,png_create_info_struct,PNG_LIBS)
>    AC_CHECK_LIBRARY(gif,DGifOpenFileHandle,GIF_LIBS)
> 
> 
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