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Date:Mon Jun 26 11:16:12 2003 
Subject:Solution for RedHat 9 (Was Re: Please guide me) 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:1030626.01 


I previously wrote in response to a problem report regarding missing
motif library libXm.so.2 from Jenab Fatemeh:

> ...try fetching this file
>
>     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/com/INSTALL_MOTIF_POPLOG_RH9
>         5138 bytes
>
> Try it in the same directory as the other INSTALL files:
>
>     ./INSTALL_MOTIF_POPLOG_RH9
>
> Let us know if it works.

He said it did not give him a usable system.

> If it does not work, try fetching this tar file (containing
> executables in $popsys, in a version of poplog running with
> libXm.so.3 on RedHat 8):
>
>   http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/new/rh8-motif-v15.53a-pop-pop.tar.gz
>     2226817 bytes Jun 24 09:23
>
> Install it in
>     /usr/local/poplog/src
>
> Then
>     cd /usr/local/poplog/v15.53a/pop
>     mv pop oldpop
>     tar xfz
>     /usr/local/poplog/src/rh8-motif-v15.53a-pop-pop.tar.gz
>
> That should create a new $popsys directory
>     /usr/local/poplog/v15.53a/pop/pop

He told me that that solution worked.

It is necessary after that to rebuild poplog saved images. For
people who have fetched the bham-linux-poplog.tar.gz file,
it suffices to do this:

> Then go back to the previous directory where you had the installation
> scripts and try
>     ./INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM

I have decided to risk putting redhat 9 on my laptop so that I can
investigate the problems at first hand!

It may be necessary to move to pre-compiled binaries for different
versions of linux, as has also proved necessary for some other
software.

An alternative might be to provide a version of $popsys/corepop
that runs on many platforms along with scripts that use it to create
the system-building saved images in $popsys, e.g. poplink.psv,
popc.psv, poplibr.psv, then use those to re-compile and re-archive,
all the system sources.

The corepop produced three years ago still seems to work on the
latest version of redhat, as it is just a minimal version of pop11.

Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
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