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From: Manmathan Muthukumarapillai <mannan@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Using the Mjolner System with RedHat 5 and other glibc 2 based Linux-systems
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:10:27 +0200
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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Using the Mjolner System with RedHat 5 and other glibc 2 based
Linux-systems
============================================================================

***(We have only tested this with RedHat Linux, Version 5)


This message is for people using the Mjolner System, release 4.1, with
RedHat 5
and other glibc 2 based systems.


What are the symptoms of the problem:
-------------------------------------

 1) The compiler has problems linking.
 2) The tools (Sif, Frigg, ..) will not start:
           they will coredump immediately.



To correct the problems, do the following 4 steps:
--------------------------------------------------

1) Set the Enviroment variable libXm_PATH.

   libXm_PATH should point to where the libXm libraries are loacated.
   If you use the lesstif package included on the Mjolner System CD-ROM
   then it should be:

             <INSTALL_PATH_FOR_LESSTIF>/lib

   e.g. /usr/local/lesstif/lib
   If you use motif or other lesstif installation then point it to where
the
   libXm libraries are installed.


2) Create two emty objectfiles crtbegin.o and crtend.o and place them
   inside /usr/lib/

 You can do it in the following way
 -----------------------------------

 echo "manmathan1 () {}\n" > crtbegin.c
 echo "manmathan2 () {}\n" > crtend.c
 gcc -c crtbegin.c crtend.c
 mv crtbegin.o crtend.o /usr/lib/


3) Set the eviroment variable BETALINKOPTIONS to:
   -L/usr/X11/lib -L$libXm_PATH -m elf_i386 -dynamic-linker
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -dc -dp -Bstatic -X

    From bash:
    ----------
    export BETALINKOPTIONS="-L/usr/X11/lib -L$libXm_PATH -m elf_i386
-dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -dc -dp -Bstatic -X"

    From tcsh:
    ----------
    setenv BETALINKOPTIONS="-L/usr/X11/lib -L$libXm_PATH -m elf_i386
-dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -dc -dp -Bstatic -X"


4) Edit the two environment configuration scripts located in the
   ~beta/configuration folder:  Comment out the LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings

   by typing a #-sign infront.
      in env.sh, line 171
      in env.csh, line 190



Please email any problems to: support@mjolner.dk



Sincerely,

Manmathan Muthukumarapillai / Mjolner Informatics

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