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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.imnet.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.sinfony.ad.jp!jun From: jun@sinfony.ad.jp (KUROKAWA Jun) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Missing _cfree (was: Re: Getting olvwm going) Date: 22 Nov 1995 11:16:23 GMT Organization: Sony Systems Design Corp., Takanawa, Tokyo Lines: 22 Message-ID: <JUN.95Nov22201624@ns.sinfony.ad.jp> References: <3rns2i$996@mars.earthlink.net> <3rsnoq$ge@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.sinfony.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-reply-to: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk's message of 17 Jun 1995 04:58:18 +0900 >>>>> "J" == James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> writes: J> In article <3rns2i$996@mars.earthlink.net>, Jason Fordham J> <jclf@earthlink.net> wrote: J> Having said all that, I never managed to get olvwm to work J> properly. After about 30 seconds it would die and the console message J> was something to do with an unresolved call to cfree. A little J> investigation with nm showed that cfree was not defined in any of the J> files in /usr/lib; it's declared as an extern somewhere in the olvwm J> source. Take a look at /usr/lib/libcompat.* stuff, for the missing "_cfree" definition. If you don't have it there, obtain one from an ftp site near you and try nm(1) on it. Although I'm speaking form the way old April SNAP experience, I recall I used to rebuild olvwm(1) with TrueColor enabled with a little source hack. Cheers, junichi