Re: Preparing installation for SWARM on SuSE 5.2

[Lorenz Gygax]

Dear Marcus,

thank you for your quick reply!

On 1 Oct 1998, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Look for libtcl* and libtk* in /usr/lib.  Actually, I suggest trying
> ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt/BLT2.4f.tar.gz.  It should be less of a
> pain to install.  The BLT8-unoff we distribute is now mainly for the
> sake of Windows users that want to build from source.

Ok, I will try this.

> LG> - libpng: I get error messages while running make test of the
> LG> form: 'undefined reference to ...' (e.g. to
> LG> png_set_write_status_fn)
> 
> What version of libpng is this?

It is version libpng-1.0.1 which I use with zlib-1.1.2, both from the
SWARM ftp site.

> Does this mean that you are trying to install a separate tclobjc
> package? As of Swarm 1.3, you don't have to do this... 

Yes, that is exactly what it meant ... I guess that is good news for me,
one thing less to install ;-)

Any more ideas about libpng?

Thank you! Lorenz


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