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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problem with installing xdtm
Message-ID: <3501@laura.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 91 12:32:17 GMT
References: <11560@hub.ucsb.edu>
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In article <11560@hub.ucsb.edu>, yfwang@hawaii.ucsb.edu writes:
|> i grabbed from comp.sources.x xdtm, the X desktop manager. however, 
|> i cannot install the package because i got an error during compilation. 
|> the error message is 
|> 
|> ---------
|> kawai(2967)% make
|> gcc -g   -I/usr/local/Pkg/XV11R4/include        -sun4 -c  main.c
|> gcc -g   -I/usr/local/Pkg/XV11R4/include        -sun4 -c  menus.c
|> gcc -g   -I/usr/local/Pkg/XV11R4/include        -sun4 -c  appman.c
|> appman.c: In function execute:
|> appman.c:885: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union
|> appman.c:885: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or union
|> *** Error code 1
|> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `appman.o'


Try the following patch:

*** /tmp/RCSAa02473     Tue May 21 16:38:25 1991
--- appman.c    Tue May 21 16:29:34 1991
***************
*** 749,755 ****
    int result, pid, fd;
    int status = 0;
    String *newargs, strptr;
!   int w_stat;

    if (fullname == NULL) {
      /* Find program */
--- 749,755 ----
    int result, pid, fd;
    int status = 0;
    String *newargs, strptr;
!   union wait w_stat;

    if (fullname == NULL) {
      /* Find program */
***************
*** 883,888 ****
--- 883,889 ----
        if (cwait) {
        wait(&w_stat);
        if (WIFEXITED(w_stat))          /* jcc */
+ #define WEXITSTATUS(w_stat) (w_stat.w_T.w_Retcode)
          status = WEXITSTATUS(w_stat); /* ejg */
        else
          status = 1;

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