Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!polya!simplicity!ramani
From: ramani@simplicity.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC widgets on System V
Message-ID: <11525@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Aug 89 23:01:02 GMT
References: <10045@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Sender: USENET News System <news@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: ramani@simplicity.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
Lines: 31


> The widgets themselves compiled and ran with no problems at all on BSD.
> I can use the System V box as the display with the code running on a Sun.
> They have flags which indicate they should be able to run under System V.
> With these flags defined I can get it to compile, but when I try to
> execute the test programs it core dumps.
> 
> Sadly, it does not core dump in the DEC code, it core dumps in XtInitialize.
> Now, XtInitialize is executed after a Dwt call, but I guess some subtle
> initialization problem is going on.  I really would rather not learn enough
> about these routines and the differences between System V and BSD to find
> the problem.
>

This is not an answer to your question but rather an expansion to the
problem.  We have recently compiled GNU emacs on our 4D running 3.1G
and encounter a "Fatal Error(11). segmentation violation" problem when
running xemacs after setting the DISPLAY environment variable.  I can
run xemacs remotely from my Sun3 and Sun4 but for some reason I can't
get xemacs to run on the 4D.  It too seems to bombsout in the Xlib
code.  The problem appears to be somewhere in XOpenDisplay.  If anyone
has managed to get GNU emacs running a 4D with 3.1G under X11, I would
be very interested to hear from you.

Thanks,


Ramani Pichumani
Department of Computer Science, Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA Tel:(415)723-2902 Fax:(415)725-7411
ramani@na-net.stanford.edu or uunet!na-net.stanford.edu!ramani@uunet.UU.NET