vesper@gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Vesper - RMS) (06/08/90)
I've had X11R4 running on a sun3 for several months with no problems. I finally got around to compiling some contrib stuff and am having all sorts of problems.. I'm choking on the client header files, for example, xcalendar has an xcalendar.h file which both my cc and gcc compiler are choking on. In addition, even programs that compile properly, like xlock, bomb when they execute. (XtGrabPointer fails for xlock). I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't something terribly wrong with my header files. A lot of the contrib clients rely on the Xaw headers, all of which are properly installed on my machine. Anybody have any clues?? thanx Gregory W. Vesper vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) (06/08/90)
In article <vesper.644785481@kong> you write: |> I've had X11R4 running on a sun3 for several months with no problems. |> I finally got around to compiling some contrib stuff and am having |> all sorts of problems.. |> |> I'm choking on the client header files, for example, xcalendar has an |> xcalendar.h file which both my cc and gcc compiler are choking on. |> |> In addition, even programs that compile properly, like xlock, bomb when |> they execute. (XtGrabPointer fails for xlock). |> |> Anybody have any clues?? |> I tried to mail this to you, your mailer choked..... Nope, nothing's wrong. Most of the contrib clients were sent to MIT as R3 clients. Things changed in R4. In particular some MIT header files were placed in subdirectories below /usr/include/X11. Your best bet is to ftp new R4 versions of the contrib clients from expo.lcs.mit.edu. Most of the contrib clients with problems have been updated and the new sources are on that machine. In particular, xlock was taking advantage of a bug in the R3 intrinsics, that's why it worked for R3 and is broken for R4. The new source is on expo. -PWM ------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter W. Morreale email: morreale@ncar.ucar.edu Nat'l Center for Atmos Research voice: (303) 497-1293 Scientific Computing Division Consulting Office ------------------------------------------------------------------