Re: [Swarm-Support] Problem installing swarm 2.2 on a Ubuntu system

[Paul Johnson]

Robert Lopez wrote:
> I am trying to install swarm on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) system. After 
> downloading the source, extracting swarm-2.2.tar.gz, and running ./configure I 
> receive the following error:
>
>
>   
I'd suggest you start with the build approach recommended in the FAQ and 
then add features. 

The message about xpm means that it cannot find xpm.h, which has been 
moved about recently because of the re-organization of the X packages.  
In Fedora, that's now under

/usr/include/X11/xpm.h

and it comes in a package called libXpm-devel-3.5.4.2-2.2

Whereas it used to be under /usr/X11R6/include/X11/... or something like 
that.  I find that the default dir setting (illustrated below) gets it.


To build Swarm on Fedora, don't work with Swarm-2.2, but rather a newer 
version from CVS that has some corrections applied.  Then the build 
sequence of commands for the no-java-support version would go something like

> mkdir builddir
> cd builddir

> CC=gcc ../configure --srcdir=../ --with-defaultdir=/usr --prefix=/usr 
--enable-onelib --enable-subdirs --with-jdkdir=no 
--with-tkscriptdir=/usr/share/tk8.4

I need that tk8.4 thing because the scripts are not in a place that 
Swarm expects.  Depending on the version of blt you have installed, you 
may need to create a symbolic link. see the output below that links from 
graph.tcl to bltGraph.tcl.


address@hidden blt2.4]$ cd /usr/lib/blt2.4/
address@hidden blt2.4]$ ls -la
total 308
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 May 24 00:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 161 root root 118784 Aug 16 10:06 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   2277 Mar 31 11:07 bltCanvEps.pro
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  13139 Mar 31 11:07 bltGraph.pro
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     25 May 24 00:08 bltGraph.tcl -> 
/usr/lib/blt2.4/graph.tcl
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May 24 00:07 dd_protocols
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 May 24 00:07 demos
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   3250 Mar 31 11:07 dnd.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   2790 Mar 31 11:07 dragdrop.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  14160 Mar 31 11:07 graph.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  13607 Mar 31 11:07 hierbox.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  25940 Mar 31 11:07 NEWS
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    994 Mar 31 11:07 pkgIndex.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   5398 Mar 31 11:07 PROBLEMS
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   5787 Mar 31 11:07 README
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  10400 Mar 31 11:07 tabnotebook.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  10408 Mar 31 11:07 tabset.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    653 Mar 31 11:07 tclIndex
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    331 Mar 31 11:07 treeview_m.xbm
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  25453 Mar 31 11:07 treeview.tcl
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    326 Mar 31 11:07 treeview.xbm

Be aware you  need to have emacs and gperf installed.

> checking directory of libXpm... /usr/lib 
> configure: error: Please use --with-xpmlibdir to specify location of XPM.
>
> I have installed the libxpm4 and libxpm-dev packages. The libraries are in /usr/lib. Running './configure --with-xpmlibdir=/usr/lib' results in the same error message. 
>
> The library is version 4.11, not the version 4.2 specified on the web page 
> http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:_stable_release. However, I can't find version 
> 4.2 anywhere, and I'm not sure that this is even the problem.
>
> I was unsuccessful finding help using Google queries.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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