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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:41:03 +1100 (EST)
From:      Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
To:        epamha@epa.ericsson.se, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, support@xinside.com
Subject:   Re: X-inside CDE segfaulting all over the place
Message-ID:  <199701200941.UAA00469@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au>

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> 
> > I've been having a less than successfull time getting the X-inside
> > CDE product working.
> 
> > installation. X11R6 & local X-clients & Swim-Motif 2.0 are 
> > installed as /usr/local/X11R6.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if the wide range of /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local
> pollution on this machine (Swim being the primary candidate) were
> causing interoperability problems.  Since Swim is 2.0 and CDE uses
> Motif 1.1, any mixup with the shared libraries would be very bad
> indeed.
> 
> To test this theory, I'd simply reinstall my XFree86 distribution onto
> a clean /usr/X11R6 then add CDE on top of this and then either reboot
> or run ldconfig by hand to rebuild my LD cache (very important!).
> See if problems persist.
> 

I didn't do that - I simply used the Xinside X distribution, removed 
the /usr/local/X11R6 from the path, ldpath etc and tried again.  No
conclusive evidence but no segfaults yet....

Regards/Mark

PS It would be nice if all our X-packages defaulted to install in
   /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R6.  I will migrate them over in
   the next few days.



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