Re: problems running swarm on SuSE linux 6.3

[Paul Johnson]

This is due to your change of c-libraries.  It came up on RedHat
machines last year.  There was some hacking to swarm to make it work
right, I think if you search the mail list archive last year you will
find me asking your exact question and Marcus had the answer.

I think you just need to recompile swarm on your system, so it takes
account of the new c library.  I think, the last time I dug into it,
Marcus had put some configure magic in there so it checked if your c
library had the argp stuff.

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> OK, this one has me stumped.
> 
> I have just upgraded my linux box from SuSE 6.1 to 6.3.  I have a
> bunch of swarm programs that worked great before the upgrade, and can
> no longer run.  When I try to run any swarm program I get the
> follwing message:
> 
> swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs> ./heatbugs
> lt-heatbugs: Too many arguments
> Try `lt-heatbugs --help' or `lt-heatbugs --usage' for more information.
> swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs>
> 
> This happens on programs that were compiled before and after the
> upgrade.  I also tried rebuilding the entire swarm installation from
> scratch on the upgraded system, but I get the same message.
> 
> Any help from you SuSE users would be extremely appreciated.
> 
> Incedentally, the compiler on my system is:
> 
> swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs> gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> I am considering installing an older version of gcc, but I suspect
> that the culprit is really in the libraries somewhere.  Any help you
> could give would be appreciated, before I go headlong into a series of
> trial-and-error solutions.
> 
> Thanks
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