Re: Fax software

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com> writes:


    Dennis> On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
    >> I use hylafax quite a bit. From home, I send out ~100 faxes a
    >> week. At work, 10-20 a week. The latest version 4.0pl0,
    >> installs fairly smoothly. I don't use it for incoming faxes, so
    >> I'm not sure about that. If give it a go again, and still have
    >> problems, give me a yell.

    Dennis>   I would love to get this going, but, here's the story:
    Dennis> the binary ( hylafax-i386-linux-v4.0pl0-1.tar.gz )
    Dennis> installs very easily - just unpack it.  However, all the
    Dennis> executables seem to have library problems on my system
    Dennis> (standard Slackware 3.0 on Intel Pentium).  Here's an
    Dennis> example:

    Dennis> /home/denisbin$ ldd /usr/local/bin/sendfax libm.so.5 =>
    Dennis> /lib/libm.so.5.0.5 libg++.so.27 => not found libc.so.5 =>
    Dennis> /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

Interesting, I did a ldd on my sendfax, which I compiled from the
source, and I get:

 ldd `which sendfax`
        libfaxutil.so => /usr/local/lib/fax/libfaxutil.so
        libz.so => /usr/local/lib/libz.so
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5.0.5
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

Notice that lack of libg++.so. I guest that I must have libg++
linked against the static lib, ie libg++.a, though I do have:
/usr/lib/libg++.so.27.1.0

    Dennis>   This libg++.so.27 is not to be found anywhere I've
    Dennis> looked.  It's not on my CDROMs (a newer and older
    Dennis> Infomagic set), it's not on sunsite and it's not at
    Dennis> tsx-11.  And it's not the same as the libg++.so.2.7.0 on
    Dennis> my system (I know because I've tried a symbolic link).  So
    Dennis> how do I solve this problem?  By compiling the source,
    Dennis> right?

When you did the symbolic link, did you run ldconfig -v to see what
libraries it picks up?

    Dennis>   Right.  That brings a whole slew of other problems. (You
    Dennis> may be amused to know that the configuration step of the
    Dennis> compile produces this message: YOW!!  Did something bad
    Dennis> happen or am I on a i586-unknown-linux system?)
    Dennis> Interestingly, the HylaFAX documentation of the source
    Dennis> build makes this recommendation:

    Dennis> 	Versions of gcc prior to 2.6.1 will not correctly
    Dennis> build this software; gcc 2.6.3 and libg++ 2.6.2 are the
    Dennis> recommended versions of the GNU tools to use though later
    Dennis> versions work also.

    Dennis>   Does this mean if I grab '1533475 Aug 3 1995
    Dennis> libg++-2.6.2.tar.gz' from sunsite, I can get this to work?
    Dennis> Somehow, I doubt it.

I used gcc 2.7.2. I did have some headaches getting it to compile, but
that is becaues I want to link against its own shared libraries, ie
/usr/local/lib/fax/libfaxutil.so, to cut down on disk an memory
usage. This is not required.

    Dennis>   If hylafax 4.0p10 works for you, Andy, why?  How?  What
    Dennis> is your library situation.  Could you post an ls of your
    Dennis> /usr/lib/libg++* ?

-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        289452 Nov 21  1995 /usr/lib/libg++.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           25 Apr 12  1996 /usr/lib/libg++.so -> /usr/lib/libg++.so.27.1.0*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           16 Apr 12  1996 /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 -> libg++.so.27.1.0*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        285054 Nov 21  1995 /usr/lib/libg++.so.27.1.0*

Hope this helps,

	Andy
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