[4178] in SIPB bug reports
Re: modified xmosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Thu Oct 14 19:14:03 1993
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 19:14:07 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: lacsap@myriad.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Cc: MIT.EDU!yandros@plethora.media.mit.edu, Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>,
jsheena@florey.media.mit.edu (Jonathan A. Sheena), yandros@mit.edu,
bug-sipb@mit.edu, bug-outland@mit.edu, biff@mit.edu,
lacsap@media.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:38:01 -0400.
<9310142238.AA24785@myriad.media.mit.edu>
> Let's see if I can come up with a grid:
> Building against motif lib 1.1 allows xmosaic with our mods to work with
> DEC and IBM r6000 but not Sun.
True.
> Building against motif lib 1.2 allows xmosaic with our mods to work
> with Suns, but crashes the Decs...
It's not yet clear what is causing the text cut-and-paste crash for the
DECstations. Motif may not be responsible. I have built a special
version of xmosaic to debug the problem. I was able to repeat the
problem once, but I can't repeat it anymore.
> Would it be appropriate to build against working motif libs for the
> right architectures and install that way?
There is no such thing as a ``working'' motif library. Motif,
in general, does not work. It is matter of choosing the least
of several evils, and working around the problems.
> I assume that for now there is no binaries of xmosaic with our mods
> that are operational.
Not true. The Solaris and RS/6000 binaries currently installed work
fine to the best of my knowledge. The DECstation version also works,
but sometimes may fail if you try to cut and paste from the widgets at
the top. Of course, there may be other problems, and we'll try to
address them as they are reported.
-Calvin
