Re: [freesci-develop] Releases 0.3.4, 0.3.4a, 0.3.4b, 0.6.1 removed due to licencing issues

[Christoph Reichenbach]

Matt,

> ld: gfx/drivers/libscidrivers.a(xlib_driver.o) illegal reference to 
> symbol: _XShmQueryVersion defined in indirectly referenced dynamic 
> library /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib 
> Ok, it was the two level name space linker issue again with Panther. I 
> thought I had seen one already with some other projects, it just took 
> some time to recall. 
> An excerpt from the Mac documentation and listing the same issue is at 
> a VLC site: http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200307/msg00043.html 
> There are 2 possibilities to resolve the linking issue: 
> -force flat name space linking by adding -flat_namespace . I am not 
> sure how optimal this is as I don't think flat name space is being used 
> on every platform and that would mean ifdef-ing it for one OS only 
> -add the library specifically to link with, so add '-lXext'.  
> This latter was once the case, it was removed some time ago. This was 
> also the reason the error confused me as I had some older source 
> compiled with Panther. 
> Not sure why Xext was removed from the list of libraries to specify for 
> linking, but if it can be included again it would be cleanest
> solution. 

IIRC, you can manually specify it by setting the LDFLAGS appropriately
before running 'configure' (e.g., 'LDFLAGS=-lXext ./configure' for
bash). It would be nicer to test for whether it is required in the
configure, script, of course.

> And now for the most important issue, the icon. I was planning to
> use 

:->

> the icon you had referred to inside the code. I found freesci.png but 
> its only 6 bytes or so. 
> I can not seem to open it with any picture viewer, maybe it was 
> corrupted at one point. 

That's true for the 'stable' branch; in 'glutton', the icon should be
correct. This also affects all 0.3.4c packages, so I'll re-build them
with the corrected icon. Thanks for pointing that out!

-- Christoph