Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:19:43 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: SiS <xsthree@InfoAve.Net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WindowMaker 0.20.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810250812460.26255-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <01J3DEEQY98Y9EEW75@InfoAve.Net>
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Hi, > Has anyone gotten WindowMaker 0.20.1 to install and run successfully? Yes I'm running it now. There are a number of possible problems w/ 20.1 to get it to install. 1) Brian Handy, the maintainer, and I have seen occasionally where pkg_delete doesn't get all the WM libs to disappear which causes severe troubles when you try to install a new version. 2) I personally had to make sure that I had the latest version of png installed - due to the switchover to ELF in 3.0 (I think) it was finding an old version of png and thinking it was the new one (this is due to the way shared libs are numbered between a.out and ELF). Things you should try: 1) pkg_delete any and all versions of Window Maker you have on your machine. Once that's done check /usr/X11R6/lib for libWMaker, libproplist and libwraster etc (check the PLIST to make sure). If you find any WM specific libraries delete them by hand. 2) check that you have the latest version of png (1.0.2) installed. Remove any old version before installing the latest. I've heard rumors that people saw similar problems w/ the xpm libraries, but I hadn't. Once that's done try reinstalling. > I saw on the WM site that 0.20.1 has many little bugs, among them a > libPropList bug. Would this have anything to do with it? I highly doubt it. I have been running it for a couple weeks. WM is under active development and will continue to have lots of little bugs but it runs. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." - Popular Science, 1891 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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