Re: Swarm RPMS: raise your hand if you tried them

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Paul,

        I'm using your .rpm distribution on a new installed RedHat 5.1; it works
perfectly.

        Pietro

At 10.20 31/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Swarm Users:
>
>I'm trying to understand what might be causing Dr.Huang's difficulties
>with swarm.
>
>One possibility is that the RPMs I built only work on my machines.  To
>rule that out, if you have used them, let me know how they work.
>
>I don't know what is causing the trouble, but IF you have already
>applied the Redhat errata/updates for things like glibc, and the
>compiled stuff I provide does not work, Please consider getting the
>SRPM packages and building swarm on your system. This way they will
>suit the particular setup you have. I also think that if the rebuild
>does not work, then you probably find out why my RPMs did not work
>because there will be error messages!
>
>It is pretty easy to do. I'd guess you ought to do libffi, blt2.4e, and
>swarm.  In case you've not done this, You
>install the SRPM package the usual way (rpm -ivh Swarm-1.3.src.rpm)
>and then go to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC, where you should see the spec file,
>and if you want to make both an RPM and an SRPM for yourself, use (rpm
>-ba swarm-1.3.spec). Then go into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 where
>you find an RPM you just built and can intall.
>
>
>On 31 Aug, xueyue wrote:
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> You probably should give more information to us. Which version of Redhat
>>> linux, have you applied any patches/updates, things like that.
>>>
>>> Also,which version of BLT?
>>>
>>> Paul E. Johnson                      address@hidden
>>> Dept. of Political Science           http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
>>> University of Kansas                 Office: (913) 864-9086
>>> Lawrence, Kansas 66045               FAX: (913) 864-5700
>> 
>>  The redhat version is 5.1,  the BLT-2.4e  is from Paul John and I have not
>> modified them.
>>   I can only run tutorials (except simpleObserverBug2). I can not ran all
>> other application
>> 1.3. I guess is something wrong with apply probe functions (if I delete
>> them then these
>> applications could run).
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Xueyue Huang
>>
>-- 
>Paul E. Johnson                      address@hidden
>Dept. of Political Science           http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
>University of Kansas                 Office: (913) 864-9086
>Lawrence, Kansas 66045               FAX: (913) 864-5700
> 
>
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