Re: dia 0.92 build fails (during linking) on MacOS 10.3

[Eric Meek <meek cs utk edu>]

Lars,

Thanks for the info.  "Linker magic" really isn't my cup either, but I'll see what I can do and I'll keep you up to date.

Eric

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On Nov 8, 2003, at 4:44 PM, Lars Clausen wrote:

> On 8 Nov 2003, Eric Meek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been trying to build dia 0.92 on MacOS 10.3 for the past few
> > days.  For all of my tries, I have not been able to understand the
> > configure system used to build dia.  It looks like there is support
> > for MacOS 10.3 in the configure scripts but the wrong flags are used
> > to generate the shared library.
>
> Glad to hear you're making this attempt.  I'd like to see a port, having
> failed myself to achieve it.
>
> > Output of make and configure are at
> > http://www.cs.utk.edu/~meek/dia/{configure.log | make.log}
>
> So it looks like libpangoxft and libpangoft2 both define (or include
> through linking) the same symbols.  This might be a sideeffect of the
> non-portable linking of libdia.  Mayhap you should change the libdai liking
> first and see if it persists, after that I suggest talking with the Pango
> people to see if they have any idea for multiple linking.
>
> Sorry I cannot be more help, but linker magic is not really my field.
>
> -Lars
>
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