Re: BLT on Linux

[Paul Black]

> 
> 
> I have installed swarm on Redhat Linux (4.0) and I have got everything
> working except the contents of graph windows does not appear.
> 
> I installed Tk4.1 and Tcl7.5 then BLt2.1.  To get Tcl and Tk to
> install I had to apply patches to the versions supplied in swarm's
> required-software.  
> 
> I also got swarm to compile Ok, however when I compiled the demonstration
> mousetraps program, I found I had to include -ldl in Makefile.conf 
>  SYSLIBS.
> 
> I have been getting errors like the following, could anyone suggest what
> might be happening?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> 
> Matt

I had this problem with redhat, you have to update the lib BLT link in
/usr/lib. By default Redhat has an older version of the library and when
you install the newer version the symbolic link does not get updated.
Untill I worked this out I had exactly the same problems you are
reporting.


Cheers...  Paul