Re: 2.1.1

[Daniel Calhoun]

The problem was both trivial and then non-trivial.

Trivial: I really am trying to compile a new exe, & finally realized that
there had to be some minor change in the text of the code, or make would
not think it had anything to do.

Non-trivial:.  The latest error message is:

Cannot find -lspace.  

There doesn't seem to be such a library on the CD that I could even move in
by hand.  Is it enclosed within some other file?

Sorry to bother you people with problems that go back to square one.  I'm
trying to break past the mechanics, in order to get back on track with the
substantive questions of my appplication, on which there is no reason to
bug anyone.

-- Dan
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> From: Alex Lancaster <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: 2.1.1
> Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 11:26 PM
> 
> >>>>> "DC" == Daniel Calhoun <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> DC> I am just trying to run on 2.1.1 (for W95) some files previously
> DC> run on 1.4.1. The effort to run an exe file is answered with
> DC> "bltGraph.tcl not found."  Moving that file from the CD into share
> DC> doesn't seem to make any difference.  Are there any written
> DC> directions or lore on how to make this transition?
> 
> DC> Thanks, anyone.
> 
> 1.4.1 is getting kind of old now.  It's at least one major revision
> old, and major revisions tend to be `major' for the reason that they
> can often break things (on the "to make an omlette, you have to break
> a few eggs" principle).  The filestructure for Swarm at runtime has
> changed considerable since 1.4.1 and so has the location of files for
> some of the support libraries (such as Tcl/Tk and BLT).
> 
> If I understand you correctly, you are trying to get on old 1.4.1
> binary to work with a the 2.1.1 install, right?  If you are, I would
> suggest that the effort to get the old exe working is better spent
> recompiling the application with the new version of Swarm (assuming
> you still have the source code working).
> 
> Also the time for the SDG to spend debugging older versions of Swarm
> for applications that haven't been updated, runs into diminishing
> returns very rapidly, as you could imagine.
> 
> Alex
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