Re: 1.5pre6 saga
Michal Vitecek (M.Vitecek@sh.cvut.cz)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:41:22 +0200
just a question: do u use the libraries shipped with AccelX or some normal
XFree ones? because your problems are really strange.
David Mihm wrote:
> <sigh> Okay another couple more hours spent trying to wrangle the
>Wharf - I don't think the boat will ever dock! I tried the *total*
>removal of everything AfterStep related, remade with the install.script -
>no go. Tried a wharf binary supplied by Michal Vitecek (thanks :) - no go.
>Tried the i386.rpm by Michael K. Neylon (thanks :); it's glibc based
><sigh> - no go. Tried an rpm --rebuild on the src.rpm; damn thing
>installed into /tmp/AfterStep-1.5pre6/usr/<X11R6|share|doc>, bad rpm!,
>without even making an i386.rpm in the proper place. :-\ So then I moved
>all the /tmp/AfterStep... stuff to it's proper locations - won't even
>start up AS or even core or tell why the hell it fails!!
> As far as I could get was to the WM starting and dropping the
>Pager and the app/modules that would be in the Wharf on the desktop. It
>appears somewhere along the lines AS isn't even reading the ~G/L/A tree
>since it kept complaining about not finding "asmail" in /u/s/a or ~G/L/A
>and it only existed in ~G/L/A. I also could never get the pixmaps which
>were located in another directory I added to the base#.bpp to be
>recognized with my look.file - of course I only modified the
>~/G/L/A/base#bpp file.
> It appears that this is definately an alpha release, and as much
>as I like to test these things out - it is just not ment to be. I'll be
>hanging out with 1.4.5.55N(6) for now, as much as I hate to say it; but if
>you are one of the lucky ones and held your tongue in the right position,
>my script to translate 1.4+ look files to 1.5pre+ format works:
>[www.the-site.dyn.ml.org/Linux/AfterStep/ (look.script) OR
> ftp.the-site.dyn.ml.org/pub/Linux/AfterStep/devel/ (look.script)]
>
>dave
>
>On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, BTK wrote:
>
>> I have had many of the same problems. When I did get it up and running the
>> wharf is just not quite all there. Either that or I'm not. I futzed with it a
>> while, but I decided that I'm not all that torn up about being in the newest
>> sportscar. For right now, 1.455N6 is still my only child. I'd still settle for
>> a messy 1.5 vice an OS from the dark empire.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> David Mihm wrote:
>>
>> > Well, my script to translate 1.4+ look files to 1.5pre+ format
>> > is done, but I can't get the 1.5pre version to run ... damit. :) And no,
>> > it's not due to my sloppy look script. :P I was never able to get the
>> > wharf to show up. I have spent several hours trying to figure out what is
>> > going on, but I'm just fed up; 19 core dumps and 41 restarts later! Went
>> > as far as renaming all the /usr/X11R6/bin/<old binaries> so as to not
>> > conflict with the (pressumebly hard coded) /usr/local/bin/<new binaries>.
>> > That's another thing, why change the paths?
>> > Anyhow, anyone else have difficulties with the wharf not
>> > functioning? Unadulterated install (step by step), virgin afterstep tree,
>> > etc, etc...still no go. <sigh>
>> > Another situation which popped up was defining the path to
>> > pixmaps, I pressume these are still controlled by the base#.bpp and I made
>> > the mod's to these files to look into my pixmap directories - couldn't
>> > "see" them. So I copied the base#.bpp to the share directory, possibly an
>> > overriding situation, nope still not found.
>> > Maybe I'm just not holding my tongue correctly or
>> > something...<sigh>.
>
>> > d a v i d @ m i h m reality.sys corrupt!
>___________________________________________________________________
>d a v i d @ m i h m reality.sys corrupt!
>davemann-at-ionet-dot-net reboot universe(y,n)?
>(www||ftp)the-site.dyn.ml.org/ ICQ:4251923
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Key fingerprint = E4 90 15 ED E5 9F 18 8A B0 CC FF 68 61 36 4A 6F
>
>
>
>--
> WWW: http://www.afterstep.org/
> FTP: ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/
> MAIL: http://wormhole.eosys.com/mailing-lists/AfterStep-Info.html
>
> To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail afterstep-request@eosys.com
>
--
fuf
------------------------------ na IRC -------------------------------------
BillGates [bgates@www.microsoft.com] has joined #LINUX
...
mode/#linux [+b BillGates!*@*] by DoDad
BillGates was kicked off #linux by DoDad (banned: We see enough of Bill
Gates already.)