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In article <rtdickerson.676829796@node_25d97> dickerson@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>We are trying to build the MIT source for X11R4.  Everything seems
>to build fine but when we try to build some X applications using
>the libraries, we get:
>
>ld warning: Symbol _qfree will link to shared library
>ld warning: Symbol _XHeadOfDisplay will link to shared library
>ld warning: Symbol _Xdebug will link to shared library
>ld warning: Symbol _XIOErrorFunction will link to shared library
>ld warning: Symbol _XErrorFunction will link to shared library
>ld warning: Symbol XrmQString will link to shared library
>
>We don't have any shared libraries!!  I looked into the source in
Yes you do.  Look in /lib.  You've got two choices here.  If you
dig up the declarations of the _ variables you will discovered that
they are all declared in macros that can go one of two ways.  The
default is just to define the variable.  E.g.  "int foo;".
The problem is a cute little C quirk.  If you, in a normal C program,
said "int errno;" the linker would be smart when it linked with
the c libraries and would realize this was the same as the global
variable of the same name.  You currently have a situation where 
you have two variables of the same name, one in a global library which
you don't want to reference, and one in the static library which you
do.  The linker is being too smart and assuming you want the global
one (it has no way of knowing you want to override the global
library).

You have two choices.  Change the variable names, or (I haven't
tried this, but it should work) change the definitions to say
	int foo = NULL;
The explicit assignment should tell the compiler that this is
a definition, not a reference.  As I noted earlier, there are
macros to do this for the _ variables, but someone forgot to do
it for XrmQString.  Someone should probably submit a formal bug
report on this.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.