xrn on RS/6000

[hbergh at nl.oracle.com]

In article <1991Jun11.163752.22702 at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> jigang at geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Jigang Yang) writes:
|In article <1411 at nlsun1.oracle.nl>, hbergh at nl.oracle.com writes:
||> In article <1991Jun3.171142.5316 at leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin at leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
||> |In article <1991Jun3.095155.29388 at bernina.ethz.ch>, wuketich at bernina.ethz.ch (Johann Wuketich) writes:
||> ||> Is there any distribution of "xrn" that will compile AND link on my RS/6000.
||> 	I tried the same thing a few days ago, but xrn keeps exiting
||> 	with malloc and calloc errors. 
||> 	It seems to be a problem in the X11R4 libraries. The [cm]alloc 
||> 	was passed incorrect (==0) parameters, no memory shortages here.
||> 	Do I need to apply any patches to X11R4 before this stuff runs
||> 	reliably? And if so, where can I get them? 
||> 	And what about Motif 1.x? Is it publicly available somewhere?
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||> 	Regards,
||> 
||> 	Herbert van den Bergh                    hbergh at oracle.com
||> 	Oracle Europe                            or uunet!oracle!hbergh
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|    Well, I installed xrn several weeks ago(together with nntp). It runs fine.

	Ok, it runs fine most of the time now, but I had to get rid of
	all the "#override"'s in the accelerators and translations in
	the XRn.ad file shipped with 6.15. This file can be added to
	your .Xdefaults file. Since they're there, there must be some 
	X11R4 implementation somewhere in the world where these things
	worked. The one it's developed on, perhaps? So what am I
	missing in the standard MIT distribution with MIT fix 1-18
	applied?
	I really would like to know, because posting news still causes
	this malloc error to show up. I have to use rn for that...
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	Regards,

	Herbert van den Bergh                    hbergh at oracle.com
	Oracle Europe                            or uunet!oracle!hbergh