rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) (03/17/88)
I had intended to post the steps necessary to bring up X.V11R2 on balance but my previous post works nearly as well. Unfortunately the text(?) widget of the toolkit kills the balance C compiler. (a number of other things kill gcc on sun ...). I've filed a bug report with sequent. Bottom line is use what I gave you before. If anyone needs it or other help, mail me. I have all the necessities up but can't compile xmore or xman, (doesn't really matter as they constantly dump core on sun). We *are* using the new X11 gnu-emacs code (it has a relatively minor limitation) and I haven't even approached most of the contrib stuff.
kit@athena.mit.edu (Chris D. Peterson) (03/18/88)
> I have all the necessities up but can't compile xmore or xman, (doesn't > really matter as they constantly dump core on sun). I am the author of these programs. It is quite possible that they do not compile or run flawlessly on the sun machines, as I wrote them on a vax and had no Sun to test them on. If anyone out there would like to put a bit of work into debugging them on those platforms, I would be more than willing to give what help I can. BTW: How do you know they constantly dump core if you cannot compile them. :-) Chris Peterson Project Athena Systems Development Net: kit@athena.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253 - 1326 USMail: MIT - Room E40-342C 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (03/18/88)
> I have all the necessities up but can't compile xmore or xman, (doesn't > really matter as they constantly dump core on sun). They compile and work for me here on a Sun(3/160,3.4) under X11R2. I have gotten a core dump when exiting xman, I was going to look into that, but it doesn't cripple the thing or anything. You also may have to up a define in xman to accomodate large man directories, but it just told me that on the stderr. Under X11R1 it was uncompileable or core dumping or something but that seems to be mostly fixed now, the problem wasn't the programs themselves but the X Toolkit which was dying with null pointer derefs when it tried to init. So actually it's the X Toolkit which has improved dramatically between releases and the clients came along for the ride. I'll guess he's referring to the X11R1 versions, upgrade and ye shall be saved. BTW, Chris, *good* job on those, I really like them in the toolkit now. -Barry Shein, Boston University
rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) (03/21/88)
In article <3846@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> kit@athena.mit.edu (Chris D. Peterson) writes: From: kit@athena.mit.edu (Chris D. Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.windows.x Date: 17 Mar 88 21:21:47 GMT References: <3073@oxtrap.UUCP> > I have all the necessities up but can't compile xmore or xman, (doesn't > really matter as they constantly dump core on sun). I am the author of these programs. It is quite possible that they do not compile or run flawlessly on the sun machines, as I wrote them on a vax and had no Sun to test them on. If anyone out there would like to put a bit of work into debugging them on those platforms, I would be more than willing to give what help I can. BTW: How do you know they constantly dump core if you cannot compile them. :-) My apologies for the cut. Its actually a pretty flashy interface even on sun although the "popup" menus are a real bother. The new "dynamic" scrollbars are a lot of fun and quite useful. (Compiles on sun, dumps frequently, feels like an uninitialized variable although a null pointer reference might feel the same. (I'll check it out when I can recompile -g). Text widget does not compile on sequent, the very long string constants, (several pages), choke their compiler.)
raj@limbo.ics.uci.EDU (Richard Johnson) (04/02/88)
You can compile the text widget on a Sequent if you take out all of the extra spaces, etc. in the string that's too long. It then fits within the limit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard A. Johnson raj@rome.ics.uci.edu (Internet) UCI ICS Assistant Technical Manager ucbvax!ucivax!raj (UUCP) Postmaster / Network Services raj@limbo.ics.uci.edu (via Nameservers)
rich@oxtrap.UUCP ("K. Richard Magill") (04/03/88)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 88 17:22:31 -0800 From: Richard Johnson <umix!ROME.ICS.UCI.EDU!limbo.ics.uci.edu!raj> You can compile the text widget on a Sequent if you take out all of the extra spaces, etc. in the string that's too long. It then fits within the limit. Thanks. Jack Griffith of sequent also informs me that it will compile if I don't let cpp see it. That is, the problem is with cpp.