Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!george.lbl.gov!antony From: antony@george.lbl.gov (Antony A. Courtney) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problems with Makeing XView2.0 on a SUN 3(and 4, too!) Message-ID: <6525@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 16 Aug 90 22:14:29 GMT References: <9099@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Distribution: usa Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Lines: 52 X-Local-Date: 16 Aug 90 15:14:29 PDT Unfortunately, I can't offer any help, just some comisseration. I had a similar problem with XView2.0 on a Sun-4, no less. I followed all the instructions, up to the point where it said to do the Make Clients. In my anxiousness, however, I figured that since the libraries were already installed, I'd just relink my own image analysis application with the new libraries, so that I could see this new '3-d' look Sun seems so proud of. And it compiled fine. And then I ran it, and got about 10 messages saying very ambiguous things like: xv_set: Invalid parameter attribute (object not a pointer), or some such nonsense, and then an error from the X library when the toolkit attempted to create a GC, and then my application got a SEGV and promptly dumped core. Determined not to give up, I went back and tried to do the Make Clients and continue with the installation as instructed. I got the same error messages with the _xv_decode_drop symbol, and also the same result when I tried to run the clock.... Disappointed by now, I went back and relinked my app. with the old faithful version of XView we had. Compiled and ran fine. And given that the interface I am using is GUIDE generated, and the fact that the new clock and the other clients distributed with this release also bombed, I think there are some serious problems here.... I'm a bit amused really. I have been programming XView applications since it was in a primordial, pre-pre-alpha state and the toolkit was not called XView, but rather View2. I found this latest name kind of funny because XView2 means the name has made a full circle. Looks like they even brought back that same level of functionality that View2 had.... :-P :-( Nice job, folks. I realize you are anxious to get things released, and show off that new "3-d" look which seems so all-important to you, but please verify that release distributions WORK before distributing them. I spent from about 8 until noon or 1 trying to get things installed, now a complete waste of my time.... BTW: We are running SunOS 4.1Beta on a 4/280. antony -- ******************************************************************************* Antony A. Courtney antony@george.lbl.gov Advanced Development Group ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!antony Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (415) 486-6692