Building xdvik (was Re: Failure of XtGetApplicationResources() in X11R7.4)

[Jon TURNEY]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
  >> Warning: No type converter registered for '' to '<81>ìÀ' conversion.
> [...]
>> Warning: No type converter registered for '<90>' to '' conversion.
> 
> I took a quick look at this, there's definitely something strange going 
> on here.
> 
> I think those strings between '' are supposed to be type names like 
> "String",
> via the defines in /usr/include/X11/StringDefs.h, but for some reason
> XtString[] doesn't seem to get linked from the Xt libary, so we use a 
> local,
> uninitialized instance, with, as they say, hilarious consequences.  You can
> see this quite clearly if you set a breakpoint on the call to
> XtSetTypeConverter() in main.c.
> 
> You can work around this by building with CFLAGS="-DXTSTRINGDEFINES", which
> makes the strings constants rather than references to elements in an 
> imported
> array.
> 
> But then it fails with a different segv, but this looks to be due to a 
> similar problem with transientShellWidgetClass
> 
> This really needs some digging into how this used to work and what's 
> changed....

I think Yaakov was right when he suggested that the libtool this uses is 
sufficiently old to cause problems [1]

$ tar -zxf xdvik-22.84.14.tar.gz
$ cd xdvik-22.84.14
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw3d
$ make
$ cp /usr/lib/libXt.dll.a texk/xdvik/.libs/libimp-cygXt-6.a
$ rm texk/xdvik/xdvi-xaw3d.exe
$ make
$ texk/xdvik/xdvi-xaw3d.exe
[works, or at least, works enough to give me a file open dialog...]

Searching the mailing list for 'libtool import broken' finds [2], which seems 
be relevant to this problem.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00119.html
[2] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-12/msg00070.html

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