problems installing XView (
David J. Camp
david at wubios.wustl.edu
Sat Oct 28 19:39:34 AEST 1989
I originally sent this message to the xviewbugs mailing list, but have
received absolutely no response. Can anyone help me with this? Thank
you, -David-
Forwarded message:
|Subject: problems installing XView
|To: xviewbugs at sun.com
|Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 7:17:35 CDT
|
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|=============================Begin bug report===============================
|Category: xview
|Subcategory: installation
|Bug/Rfe: bug (If a Request for enhancement, put 'rfe')
|Synopsis: problems with installation
|Severity: 3-4
|Priority:
| It will be a problem every time I need to recompile. It may
|require extensive hacking each time, since I do not have a
|general-purpose solution.
|Description:
| See below.
|Work around:
| hack Makefiles
|Suggested fix:
| I could send you my hacked Makefiles, but they are not a real
| solution.
|Comments:
| I suspect you were using a different version of imake.
|Called in by:
| Customer:
| Company: Washington University Biostatistics
| Employee: David J. Camp
| Contact: david%wubios at wucs1.wustl.edu
| Phone #: (314) 362-3635
| Release #: X.V11R3 xview2
| Hardware: Sun 3/260
| O/S: SunOS
| O/S version: 4.0.3
| Server: same machine
| Server version:ditto
| WindowMmgr: olwm
|
|==========================End of bug report==================================
|
|Severity guidelines:
| 3) execution of critical function difficult, workaround/patch
| available, execution of non-critical function difficult,
| no workaround/patch
| 4) execution of critical function inconvenient, execution of
| non-critical function difficult, workaround/patch exists
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|I had the following problems compiling XView. First, the example for
|imake was only remotely similiar to what I had to do. I had to 'ln -s
|../util util' in the core.src/X11 directory. The instructions did not
|specify that I had to 'cd usr.lib' first. The command that worked was
|'../../core.src/util/imake/imake -TImakefile \
| -I../../core.src/X11/util/imake.includes \
| -DTOPDIR=../../core.src/X11 -s Makefile'. The 'make Makefiles' command
|did not work, but I guessed that was because you had already done that
|with imake. When I ran 'make install_headers' it failed because I had
|not already used mkdir for the include directory. I had to edit the
|Imakefile's and remove the comments, since my version of imake barfs on
|them. I had to edit the Makefile and comment out some imake commands
|that got passed through unprocessed, and I do not know if that is
|causing problems. In the usr.bin/tools/images directory I ran imake,
|generating an alternate Makefile, and edited it, including some portions
|of the original Makefile because the InstallMultiple macro did not
|compile. I also had to define the $(INSTALL) variable to be 'install'.
|To install xview itself, I again had to hack at the make file because
|some macros were not expanded. I later discovered that the combined
|library had been generated even though I did not type 'make libxview.a'.
|At this point the Makefiles in the subdirectories were using the
|individual libraries instead of the combined library, so I had to edit
|them again. The 'make install.man' command did not work, but it looks
|like there are no man pages anyway. :-( I have everything compiled
|now, but have yet to print out the 8MB of documentation before I learn
|how to use it. -David-
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