Subject: Re: PLT symbol goodness (in XFree 4.0.x, particularly)
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/08/2001 19:15:38
Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:48:42PM -0500, Andrew Hobgood wrote:
>
>  > Well, yeah... there might be a magical link flag, but I've got a hunch
>  > that this is something buried much deeper in the toolchain.

> In this case, I think the problem is that the actual X server itself
> isn't being linked with "--export-dynamic".

--export-dynamic == -E

I did '#define ExtraLoadFlags -Wl,-E' in .../config/cf/host.def and 'make
World'...  Made certain that _every_ binary in X was linked with that flag...

To confirm Andrew's findings, we still have the PTR faults.

I'll try toggling some compat bits in the kernel...

> Simon -- you might want to look into this :-)

Add my name to the list of people that owe you a bottle of Wild Turkey, Simon.
It's not like I haven't been looking forward to X on Alpha for, oh, what; like
five years?

> --
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>

--David