Hello, I'm new to this list, so I hope I'm sending the message to the 
right place.

I'm running RiscBSD 1.3 Alpha on a 42mb SA-110, having installed it with 
the CD-Rom. I'm very pleased with it but I'm having a problem with shared 
libraries.

I downloaded the KDE set of programs from the net a while back, to try 
and get a decent window manager and a few more decent apps because I 
can't stand twm, fvwm and I wasn't too impressed with Afterstep or 
WindowMaker. KDE is *very* good (URL is http://www.kde.org).

KDE gives you the option of building it either using shared libraries or 
using static libraries, ie dynamic libraries versus bloody huge 
executables. First, I tried to build the shared set, it seemed to compile 
ok. Then I ran it and it didn't work. Pressed Alt-F1, and saw that it had 
done loads of core dumps all over my harddisc. I added various paths to 
the /etc/ld.so.conf file and ran ldconfig and tried again. The same happened.

Compiling with static libraries seemed to do the trick but when I type 
'startx' at the command prompt, I have to wait about three minutes for 
the program to load, which is very boring, to say the least.

I understand that the C/C++ compilers on 1.3 Alpha have a few bugs in
them when it comes to making shared libraries. How can I fix this? Is 
there a patch I can download from the ftp://ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk site? I 
tried to download a file called c++fix.tar.gz but that didn't make the 
slightest difference.

Any help would be appreciated. Someone on the newsgroups suggested that I 
download the comp.tar.gz file from ftp://ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk but as my disc 
quota at uni is 1mb and the archive is 7mb it might be a bit difficult.

Cheers,
Tim