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- From: djp@ecs.soton.ac.uk (David Pritchard)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: -nosunview
- Message-ID: <14000@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 14:35:02 GMT
- Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Reply-To: djp@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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- Many thanks to those who responded to my plea of a month or so ago (even
- though noone came up with an answer remotely close). Briefly,
- my problem was
- 1. openwin -nosunview failed ONLY FOR ME on MY machine
- 2. worked for me on ALL other machines - with IDENTICAL setup
- permissions etc.
-
- The correct solution was arrived at after observing an additional fact
- 3. worked for ME on MY machine, if SOMEONE used it first.
- which neatly 'explained' the inconsistency between 1 and 2.
-
- The answer: I had the gnu stuff ahead of /bin on my PATH. gnu ld
- does not seem to be able to cope with doing whatever -nosunview
- causes to be required. Arranging /bin/ld ahead of gnu/ld makes the
- problem go away.
-
- This is probably a programming error somewhere in Xnews which
- surely ought to invoke /bin/ld specifically.
-
- --
- Dr David J. Pritchard
- Electronics and Computer Science tel (+44 703) 592722
- University of Southampton fax (+44 703) 593045
- Southampton SO9 5NH email djp@uk.ac.soton.ecs (UK)
- United Kingdom djp@ecs.soton.ac.uk (World)
-