Scott> Like many others I ran into a few problems when compiling and
Scott> running scotty on AIX, such as:
Scott> 1. Many compiling errors, do to missing libraries.
Scott> 2. A linking warning, "ld: 0711-327 WARNING: Entry point not
Scott> found: __start".
Scott> 3. The biggy: 'bitmap "icon" not defined', causing tkined to
Scott> hang, i.e. no window.
Scott> The following is a brief description of how I worked around
Scott> these problems on my AIX 4.1.4 system. I used the gcc
Scott> 2.7.2.1and is ld to get around the __start error, however
Scott> there may also be a work around with the AIX ld, I just don't
Scott> know what it would be.
Many thanks for sharing this workaround. I have added your text to the
current version of the porting.notes files:
http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/porting.notes
Thanks again for your nice contribution. (I am still wondering how
changing the extension from .a to .so fixes the "bitmap icon not
defined" problem. :-)
Juergen
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