Re: BTL or blt8.0-unoff-swarm-1

[pauljohn]

With swarm 1.2 we know the blt8.0-unofficial is OK.
The BLT2.4e is beta software and some "hacks" are needed on it
to make your errors go away.  blt8.0-swarm-0 on the ftp site is the one
to use with swarm1.2. I know its frustrating for you.  We've talked
now and then about creating a Software Map.  Marcus Daniels made a
list of software dependencies and posted it a while ago but I can't seem
to find it right now.

There is a long complicated story behind the blt editions.  From what I
understand, swarm 1.3 will work with 
an updated version of blt2.4 or blt8.0.  

If you can wait a week or two (or three, you know how it goes),
there is going to be swarm 1.3 released and I'll have Redhat style
RPMS for you.  I made an RPM of blt8.0 on my system and I'm glad to 
share it with you.  Within 1 hour, it should be found in

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm

This one is not perfect, and I know what my mistake was, but it
takes a long time to recompile it, so I have not recompiled it. The e
rror happens at runtime, after you type "heatbugs" it will say "cant
find BLT_LIBRARY or some such rot."  But
there is an easy fix.  You set an environment variable for BLT_LIBRARY,
as in 

   $ export BLT_LIBRARY=/usr/library

You can compile Swarm1.2 against this well enough, or at least I did.
I've also got an rpm for libffi if you want to try it.


You can recompile it yourself from the src.rpm I also put in my swarm
directory.
PJ

On 21 Aug, Omar Armas wrote:
> i have redhat 5.1 and installed BLT2.4e.tar.gz, do i need 
> blt8.0-unoff-swarm-1?
> 
> 
> i have another question, i compiled all libraries and swarm and the heatbug
> app, but when i run it some windows are displayed, but not the graphic. i get
> errors like these:
> 
> address@hidden heatbugs]# ./heatbugs
> (Tcl -eval:) invalid command name "bitmap"
>     while executing
> "unknown_pre_tclObjc $name $args"
>     (procedure "unknown" line 6)
>     invoked from within
> 
> here comes a lot more errors...
> 
> Tcl -eval:) bad window path name ".w0x81527a8.w0x8152410"
>     while executing
> "pack .w0x81527a8.w0x8152410 -fill both -expand true"
> while evaluating: pack .w0x81527a8.w0x8152410 -fill both -expand true;
> Segmentation fault
> address@hidden heatbugs]#
> 
> 
> any idea about what can be wrong?
> 
> 
> PD. when swarm1.3 will be released?
> 
> 
> 
> omar
> 
> 

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