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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting olvwm going Date: 16 Jun 1995 19:58:18 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3rsnoq$ge@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <3rns2i$996@mars.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.jraynard.demon.co.uk 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'