From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 22:57:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06245 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.davidv.net (davidv.net [206.138.229.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06233 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:57:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Received: from workbox.davidv.net (david@workbox.davidv.net [10.124.239.13]) by ns1.davidv.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03630; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:57:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Message-Id: <199810130557.AAA03630@ns1.davidv.net> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:55:12 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: david@davidv.net Organization: My Little unix network at Home From: "David L. Vondrasek" To: Jonathan Chen Subject: Re: WindowMaker ports... Cc: FreeBSD-Questions List , rneswold@mcs.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA06239 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Oct-98 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Richard M. Neswold wrote: > >> Now back to the original poster's problem (which I am also >> experiencing): >> windowmaker installs fine, but it gives a SIGBUS when it runs. I >> recompiled >> the port with debug information, generated another core file and tried >> to >> see where it failed. Unfortunately, the stack frame gave a bunch of >> ??s >> which didn't help. Anyone else have this problem? > > You have to build Windowmaker from the sources at ftp.windowmaker.org. > The libraries for libPropList have changed, and if you use the wrong > ones you get really strange bus-errors/seg-faults. > > Using the ports-system to update Windowmaker is almost impossible 'cos > the sources for Windowmaker change on a fortnightly basis! > > Just ftp the sources, unpack, and *then* unpack libPropList.tar.gz, > configure/make it; then configure/make Windowmaker. > > I've got 0.20.1 running fine on my 2.2.7-R box. THANKS !!!!!!! Followed these directions and I'm up and running ! Once again the list comes though. ..NOW... were to locate all these app the menu wants :) --- Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message