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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install trouble with SWiM 2.0 for FreeBSD Date: 30 Nov 1995 21:39:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <49l8a9$k3p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49d492$1s7@ulowell.uml.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dgoddard@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (David L. Goddard) writes: > I am having a problem installing SWiM. The Install script > looks to see if I have XFree86 installed, however, it > looks for the directory X386. Their Install script is simply crap. :-( I've heavily tweaked it (since i like to install it under /usr/Motif), and got it sorta work. I will send a complaint to them however. There are more bogons: * i'm not sure if libXm.so.2.0.0 would even be recognized as a normal shlib by ld(1) [note the double minor #] * the shlibs are not even mentioned in the docs, and the Install script attempts to install them under /lib * the shared mwm(1) references the full /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/libXm.so.2.0.0 path (!) * the mwm.static (where `static' refers to a static libXm only) references the non-existant libg++.so.2.0, but apparently the shared mwm(1) doesn't reference libg++.so (and i don't see a reason why it's needed) * the installation script was totally unusable for any destination != /usr/X386, and it silently assumed all directories were already there [ (cd /foo ; tar -xvf -) instead of (cd /foo && tar -xvf -)] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)