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From:	AVALON::buckley "Martin Buckley  28-Sep-1995 1105" 28-SEP-1995 
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Subj:	Building X11r6(decx11.nightly_pool)


The Open3D group needs to submit code to the platinum base and to accomplish
that we are trying to work with a sup of decx11.nightly_pool.

We have been told that decx11.nightly_pool can be built on OSF3.2C and
run on platinum.

We have been successfully able to make World in the sup'ed decx11.nightly_pool
tree but have had great difficulty creating a build process that allows
the creation of static backing trees(using ode3.0), which when built generate
working executables.  For some reason the resulting shared objects:
	1) can not be executed without problems
	2) can not be debugged with dbx or gdb
	3) in some cases, though shared objects exist, the loader seems
	   unable to find all shared objects.

We have also tried to build these sources on a platinum machine and have found
compile errors that do not exist when building on 3.2C.  This suggests that
ode is not setting the build environment correct.


A couple of questions:
	1) Is decx11.nightly_pool the best way to obtain a complete
	   build environment for x11r6?  Is there a pool which contains
	   a complete build environment for x11r6 which is more stable
	   than decx11.nightly_pool?
	2) Sup'ing of decx11.nightly_pool does not include build logs.
	   This information is very important in that it would minimize
	   potential problems at our end and remove the need for a query
	   to ZK to determine wether a problem is self-inflicted or not.

	   How does one go about obtaining build logs?

	3) I am aware that there are folks in ZK that build on 3.2C and
	   are able to debug on platinum.  Is this the most effective
	   method for developing on x11r6 or do you recommend performing
	   all development on platinum?
	4) Are you aware of any general issues with building x11r6 which
	   could help minimize problems developing in this environment?

Unfortunately, there is very little time left for experimenting.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.


Martin Buckley


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