[comp.windows.x] Problems with Xaw on SUN 4.0.3c

jrr@lanl.gov (John R. Red-horse) (03/23/91)

I recently posted a question regarding the failure of xman to
run under X11R4 Patch 18 on a SUN 4/60 under SunOS4.0.3c.  I
did a little playing around and found that the problem was
more complicated than that original note implied.

As was recommended in the distribution, I unset the environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and did a ``make World''.  The build
completed without any errors---at least as far as I could gather
from the recorded output.  I followed this with a ``make install''.
At any rate, the first indicator that something was wrong
was that I was getting weird SEGV errors when running xman.
Later, I discovered more weirdness running the R4 compliant version
of xdbx.  A psuedo-random sample of the other applications showed
no other errors.

The bottom line here is that I replaced the shared library libXaw.so.4.0
with one that had been compiled at Patch level 0 and voila! all things began
to work.  There is the additional annoyance that any application that
pops up is now accompanied by a message of the form:

  Warning: Shell Widget class SimpleMenu binary compiled for R3

Can anyone out there help me out on this nagging question?  Is it a
known problem with this particular version of SunOS?  It could make
me break down and do the upgrade.

Cheers,