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From: woks4000@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xrn bug
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Date: 5 Dec 90 22:22:44 GMT
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In article <911@ucthpx.UUCP>, staby@cs.uct.ac.za (Thorsten Staby) writes:
|> 
|> I have spent the last couple of hours installing xrn under X11R4 on
|> a sun sparc station 1+ running OS 4.1 . When running xrn, it comes
|> up with the main interface that lets you select newsgroups etc. As
|> soon as I want to read any of the news groups, xrn crashes on a SEGV
|> signal in function XrmStringToQuark which is in libX11, whatever
|> XrmStringToQurak accomplishes.
|> 
|> It does not seem to be possible to debug xrn further than XtMainLoop
|> without having to recompile XrmStringToQuark with the debug option set 
|> and trying to figure out what is going wrong. I would like to avoid
|> this time consuming process (loading source etc. etc.)
|> 
|> Is there anyone out there running xrn and has encountered similar problems ?
|> Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You should have mentioned the version of xrn. I encountered the same problems
when I took the sources from the MIT-distribution tape. They disappear
if you fetch a younger version (e.g. xrn-6.13) from expo.lcs.mit.edu.
I decided to do so and it works what you may have noticed by leading |>
in cited text ;-)

By the way: is there someone who succeded to compile xrn 6.13 in a MOTIF-
environment (say: AIX 3.1, HP-UX 7.0 or EP/IX 1.2.3 [MIPS/CDC])?
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Wolfgang Ksoll           ZRZ (CC), Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Germany
                         woks4000@w104zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de