From: Ching-Hsiang Chen <chchen@stat.fsu.edu> Subject: Compiling OLVWM: the steps Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:06:03 GMT
I've compiled successfully the olvwm following the attached posting and
some additional steps. First you got to get Flex from nic(128.214.6.100)
and xbastart, xext, xprog, 75dpi fonts. Compile Flex and that should be
no problem since even I can do it (oh, I know little about C language and
GCC compiler). Place Flex in right directory according to the README or
doc included. Now follow the steps in the attched article but in step 4.,
you still need to delete the -lobz option in the Makefile.
Edit the the font path in Xconfig so that it includes 75dpi fonts. Change
the last line of the xinitrc file to 'exec olvwm' and change .Xresources
to .Xdefaults in the very first few lines. This should do the job.
%% I had tried the binaries version of olvwm in tsx-11 but didn't succeed
so I have to do it myself.
Steve Chen
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Article 6266 of comp.os.linux:
From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Compiling Open Look (olvwm)
Date: 20 Jul 1992 12:41:52 GMT
Hi. I'm replying to all the recent posts for help compiling Open Look (olvwm).
There are four major steps that have to be done in order for the source to
be compiled successfully.
1: Get a copy of the flex source. I used version 2.37, so anything
later than that should work.
2: Make the libraries in the olgx dir, and then use make install
to place it in the correct directories.
3: Modify the file slave.c in two ways. Firstly, #define notdef
at the beginning, and secondly change the reference to "RLIMIT_NOFILE"
to RLIMIT_OFILE. (BTW: I'm not too sure about these, could be dodgy.
Perhaps someone could straighten out the problem in sys/resource.h?
4: And finally, change olvwm/Makefile so that the CFLAGS include
"-DSYSV" and so there is no reference to libobz. (Again, I don't know
what's in that lib, but it linked ok...)
Then you should be able to compile the main program with no trouble. All I can
say is that this worked for me... The change is _definitely_ worth it. Open
Look is a huge improvement over twm.
Pat -- Have a day!