Re: Scwm-0.99.6

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Chris <chris@tech.com.au> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed the scwm99.6-1 Redhat x86 rpm from scwm.mit.edu onto
> Redhat 6.1. I also installed the cassowary 54a (even though rpm didn't
> require it, and the link on the web page is borken.).

I've fixed the links now.... thanks for that.

> scwm crashes before even starting. I have checked my rpms and they are
> the same version as the ones on the web site. A stack trace follows.

Which guile rpm are you using?  The stack trace below suggests it might
be guile-1.3.  You should perhaps use:

ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/RPMS/i386/guile-1.3.4-1gjb.i386.rpm

The README recommends 1.3.4, but perhaps I should make that more clear
on the web page.

> I also built the previous version of scwm on a Sun Solaris Ultra today.
> I spent quite a bit of time building all the libraries. Without imlib or
> Xpm, scwm ran, but was unusable (perhaps due to lack of imlib or xpm,
> but I'm surprised it couldn't work a bit better). Anyway, I then
> installed imlib and Xpm, and then scwm crashes immediately. Tried to run
> gdb on it, but gdb crashed too. Should I build with some debug option??

I'd rather have bugs relative to the current version of Scwm.  Can you
get scwm-0.99.6.tar.gz and try to build it and see if things work for
you.  Again, do this with guile-1.3.4, as guile-1.3 is no longer
necessarily supported.

<snip>

Thanks,
Greg