Re: (First ?) problems with version 2...

Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:16:56 +0100

Damir Buskulic wrote:
>
> I tried to run the version 2 of ROOT on various machines. It works great
> on MkLinux and HP-UX. I tried also Alpha. there, I found a problem with
> the fvwm95 window manager. If I build and run guitest, some of the modal
> dialogues appear without the frame around the window. Furthermore, if the
> frame is present, the close box in the up right corner doesn't appear.
> This seems to be a window manager problem but I don't see how to
> circumvent it. On an X terminal with the local window manager, everything
> works fine.
>
I've tested myself on Linux with fvwm95 and I've not had any problems
with dialogs without decoration. Maybe some fvwm95 setting on your
machine. In guitest there is one dialog, the Slider dialog that SHOULD
not have a close box. To close such a dialog click in the decoration
with the right mouse button and select "close" from the window manager
menu.

> There is another problem, also on alpha. I can't launch root because of
> the libXpm version. I have the following message :
>
> 3139:/COMMUN/users/virgo/buskulic/root/bin/root: /sbin/loader: Fatal
> Error: object libXpm.so from liblist in
> /COMMUN/users/virgo/buskulic/root/bin/root has version "", which does not
> match the found object: /COMMUN/users/virgo/buskulic/root/lib/libXpm.so
> (with version "4.10")
>
The libXpm.so with the Alpha distribution has a different version number
as the one we linked against. To work around this problem define in
the shell:

export _RLD_ARGS="-ignore_version libXpm.so"

This tells the loader not to check the version number on the
libXpm.so shared library.

Next beta we'll make sure the libXpm.so version is good without
the need for _RLD_ARGS.

Cheers, Fons.