From: James Henrickson (ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu)
Date: 07/28/92


From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: Compiling OLVWM: the steps
Date: 28 Jul 1992 17:45:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.070518.2700@u.washington.edu> kludge@hardy.u.washington.edu (MoonMan) writes:
>
> After about 4 hours of tweaking and stealing header files from the
>UW systems, I finally got olvwm to compile. Whew. It WASN'T as easy
>as you people have been saying, though... it relies on there being a
>lot of header files there that aren't, so I got to port 7 or 8 over from
>an Ultrix (BSD 4.2ish) system.

You either A) didn't use the olvwm source located at tsx-11, or B) didn't
install gcc2.2.2 properly. I spent a lot of time trying to compile olvwm
from the sources I got at export.lcs.mit.edu, before I decided their had
to be an easier way. The source code at tsx-11 compiles with very little
modification.

> Anyway, it IS compiled, and it DOES work under Linux v0.96b - would
>anybody like me to upload it to tsx-11 or banjo? It hardly seems fair
>for everybody to have to go through what I did. :)
> Now, if I only had an extra 200 meg HD, I'd work on porting XView. :]

THAT is a job and a half! I got as far as the error messages for
the rpc calls and then I called it quits! I don't think it requires 200
MB, though.

-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson                                 ujlh@sunyit.edu
* "Yet another Jim in the Linux world."  :-)