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From: chris@suntan.ncsl.nist.gov (Chris Schanzle)
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Subject: Re: Problems building XVIEW 2.0
Keywords: xview
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Date: 6 Sep 90 19:38:21 GMT
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jcdixon@cbnewse.att.com (jack.c.dixon) writes:
>I'm trying to build xview2 and am running into so many problems that I
>must be doing something wrong.  I'm on a Sun4 running Sun OS 4.1.
>I installed the xview2.tar.Z.a[a-i] files, built the Makefiles, and then
>did a make World and during the makedepend part I find that header files in
>xview_private and olgx_private aren't being found.  In fact, the olgx_private
>directory doesn't even exist under build/usr/include.  Here are a few of
>the hundreds of error messages that come spewing out:

>depending in ./lib/libxvin/attr...
>../../.././util/makedepend/makedepend -s "# DO NOT DELETE" --  -I../../../. -I..
>/../.././build/usr/include      -- attr.c attr_copy.c attr_cu.c attr_util.c
>../../.././util/makedepend/makedepend:  attr.c: ../../.././util/makedepend/maked
>epend:  cannot find include file "xview_private/attr_impl.h"

>making all in ./lib/libolgx...
>make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `olgx_private/olgx_impl.h'

>Anyway, the README that comes with xview2 says that it builds cleanly on
>Sun OS so I assume I missed something in the installation procedure.  
>Jack Dixon,  AT&T
>{ ...!att!vogon!jcd, jcd@vogon.att.com }

I had similar problems too -- I was beginning to wonder if this
installation was going to be as difficult as X11R4!!  But, to my
surprise, I found out that I had to tell Imake that TOPDIR is not
TOPDIR of X11R4, but now TOPDIR of the XVIEW2 source tree!  After
that, the build was trivial.  To build XVIEW2, I added the following
to the bottom of site.def:

#define TopDir /usr/local/src/X11r4/xview2
BINDIR = /usr/bin/X11
#define TOPDIR /usr/local/src/X11r4/xview2

Could someone please add this little tidbit of info to the docs??

As a postscript (no tm :-), I was somewhat dismayed at watching this
bugger compile for about 4 hours (about that of the X11R4), chugging
and chugging, only to create half a meg of executables in my
/usr/bin/xview directory and a couple shared libraries (libxview.*,
libolgx.*)!!  Your milage may vary.  :-)

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"If you can read this, you're not              Chris Schanzle
 looking through the Hubble telescope."        chris@suntan.ncsl.nist.gov