Re: Installing and using swarm 1.3 on SuSE 5.2

[Lorenz Gygax]

Dear Marcus,

thanks again for the help!

> 1) figure out how a libBLT.a ended up in /usr/X11R6/lib

That should have caught my eye. Stupid me. These must have been some
remains of an unsuccesful install attempt. (And unfotunately blt does not
come with a make uninstall ...)

> 2) Use --with-bltdir=/usr/local, not --with-bltdir=/usr/local/blt
> 3) Make sure that you have a libBLT.so in the intended path of BLT.

So I did, then ran make and make install in the swarm distribution
directory again:

Now heatbugs compiles but I get a segmentation fault when I try to run it.
I think I remember that was an issue recently on this list, so I will dig
into the archive on Monday, when I can continue my installation. (I did an
ldd on heatbugs and the used libraries seem to be fine.)

> Btw, whatever happened with the RPMs?

When you or Paul pointed out the RPMs to me I misunderstood that they were
only available for some of the prerequisite programs. And there and then I
felt I was not doing so badly and I guess I was a bit (over-)impressed by
the "unknown"  rpm. But maybe I should have tried it then (and maybe I
should now as not to succumb to the concorde fallacy ...) 

A good weekend to all of you! Regards, Lorenz


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