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From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting olvwm going
Date: 18 Jun 1995 01:37:52 GMT
Organization: The Star-Lit BBS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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I'm running olwm under 2.0.5R and don't have the problem with the 
non-virtual desktop window manager, but do with shelltool.  I get a 
_cfree undefined symbol error after I hit a key (not a good thing ;).  
olwm works great, and for that I'm much grateful, I just wish some of the 
other OL stuff worked ;).


James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <3rns2i$996@mars.earthlink.net>,
: Jason Fordham <jclf@earthlink.net> wrote:

: >I have FreeBSD 2.0 on CD-ROM, and the olvwm package on the CD tries to 
: >ftp a couple of files that don't exist any more.

: Actually, everything you need is on the CD, although you have to compile
: and install xview first before you can compile olvwm. The source code is 
: under /cd/ports/distfiles and there are various patches, configuration 
: scripts, etc in the tree under /cd/ports/x11.

: There may be more elegant ways of doing it, but I just copy the source
: into /usr/ports/distfiles, change to /usr/ports/x11, copy over the stuff,
: change into the directory I've just copied and type make. (In practice I
: usually type 'make configure' and have a good look at compiler options,
: destination directories, etc before I do a 'make all').

: Having said all that, I never managed to get olvwm to work properly. After
: about 30 seconds it would die and the console message was something to do
: with an unresolved call to cfree. A little investigation with nm showed that 
: cfree was not defined in any of the files in /usr/lib; it's declared as an
: extern somewhere in the olvwm source.

: Any ideas, anyone?

: James
: -- 
: Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'

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Robert Watson   rwatson@sidwell.edu   http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.  The goal of nature
is to build better mice.