Re: 1.5pre6 saga
David Mihm (davemann@the-site.dyn.ml.org)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:20:45 -0500 (CDT)
<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!
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