[13835] in Athena Bugs
Fixed core dump bug in willow due to X11R5 and Motif 1.2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Sep 11 17:28:56 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 17:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: milestones@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, mattf@cac.washington.edu
When I compiled the Willow graphical information search/retrieval app
under Motif 1.2 with X11R5, I got bit by an obscure problem with the R5
libraries.
In order to paste into a Motif App built with X11R5, an nsl directory
must be found which contains internationalization configs. This could
happen by requiring anyone who uses my app to know that it was built
with X11R5 and to carefully attach the X11R5 locker, but I preferred to
do it differently.
I copied the nsl config hierarchy into my library app distribution tree
and added to my willow csh script:
if (($HOSTTYPE == 'decmips') || ($HOSTTYPE == 'rsaix') || ($HOSTTYPE ==
'sun4')) then
setenv XNLSPATH /mit/libdevo/nls
endif
The SGI platform has nsl configured in correctly by default.
I expect, that over time, as we migrate to using vendor supplied xlib
and Motif that the number of machines listed in my if will decrease.
I hope readers of Milestones enjoy learning this obscurica.
Special thanks to Matt Freedman of UW for sorting this out.
To the folks on bugs -- mark this one as closed -- x11r5 brain damage.
-wdc
