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Date:Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:03:42 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: Poplog Xved Problems 
From:A . Sloman 
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On 23 Jul 2004, John Duncan wrote:

> On 2004-07-23, rpriceis@hotmail.com <rpriceis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Clearly I have messed the installation up. I think starting afresh is best
> > option also.
> >
 [JD]
>     Just a thought but do you have the C-shell ( or tcsh ) and
> the Xfree86-dev rpm. I think that poplink_cmnd needs a C-shell
> and the headers etc. from the Xfree86 development libraries
> may be needed for linking.

Good point.

If the install without motif script also fails, it could be for this
reason.

I really need to find time to revise the installation scripts to do more
helpful diagnosis and generally to behave more sensibly: e.g. if
re-linking with motif fails it should automatically try re-linking
without motif and if successful continue from there.

It should also report on missing required libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib/

Better still, a pre-install script should examine libraries check
for available shells, offer the user options, and then take action.

Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )