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From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
To: braams@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU (Bastiaan J. Braams)
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: xdvi can't open display
In-Reply-To: <9502262117.AA10078@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU>
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Bastiaan,
here is the reason why xdvi sometimes cannot open the display on
IRIX 5.2 and derived systems (such as IRIX 6.0): the configure script
finds a `-lsocket' library and adds it to the linker commands. NB:
this library is necessary on Solaris 2 systems. Unfortunately on IRIX
5.2 this library contains `variants' of the gethostby...() routines,
and these implementations are somehow broken (they don't use the
nameserver?). IRIX 5.3 seems to have fixed this problem, at least
there are no gethostby...() routines in `-lsocket' anymore.
The obvious workaround is to remove `-lsocket' (and possibly `-lnsl')
from the linker command lines in the Makefiles for IRIX.
Hope this helps,
--
Simon.