Re: Strange problem installing Swarm 1.3.1

[Mark Townsend]

Hi Loren,

I had segment fault problems on my Linux box running redhat 5.0,
upgrading to 5.1 solved it.

Mark


---Lorin Hochstein <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first post to the mailing list (or any mailing list,
period),
> so I hope it isn't a really trivial thing...
> 
> I had a rather strange problem installing Swarm 1.3.1 on my system
(I'm
> running Redhat 5.0, building Swarm from the sources).
> 
> When I extract the Swarm sources (I put them in
/usr/local/swarm-1.3.1),
> and tried to build it, I had to change the makefiles, which were
looking
> for files in
> 
> ../swarm-1.3.1/etc/swarm
> 
> which were in
> 
> ../swarm-1.3.1/etc
> 
> I changed the makefiles, and then I thought I was done. Then, I
tried to
> build and run the sample applications. They compiled, but
seg-faulted on
> execution. After tracing through the code, I discovered that the
> Arguments.findDirectory method was being called, and was looking for
> ../swarm-1.3.1/etc/swarm again!
> 
> Why doesn't swarm install the files in the proper place? Should I just
> copy all of the files in ../swarm-1.3.1/etc to
../swarm-1.3.1/etc/swarm?
> Even if this fixes it, does anyone know why it unpacked the files to
the
> wrong directory?
> 
> 
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