home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!bloom-beacon!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!daemon
- From: Ching-Hsiang Chen <chchen@stat.fsu.edu>
- Subject: Compiling OLVWM: the steps
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.060603.29354@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: chchen@stat.fsu.edu
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:06:03 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
- 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
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Article 6266 of comp.os.linux:
- From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Compiling Open Look (olvwm)
- Date: 20 Jul 92 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!
-