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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
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In-reply-to: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk's message of 17 Jun 1995 04:58:18
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>>>>> "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