Re: Linux and BLT

[Nelson Minar]

>I just got the new version of Swarm up and running (yeeha!) The changes 
>look extremely useful. 

that's what we like to hear :-)

>I also just put SWARM up on a linux box (1.3.20).  What do I have to do 
>to compile BLT for Linux -- how should I make the changes in the 
>BLT Makefile to deal with the the bltGrAxis failed assertion problem?

I just did it by hand - built BLT, removed bltGrAxis.o, compiled that
file by hand without -O. BTW, the problem seems to be some fairly
marginal floating point code. My guess is it's a BLT bug. If people
want, I can make my compiled shared ELF versions of BLT available on
the net.

>Oh, has anyone used BLT-1.9? I have it working on the Linux box and 
>everything seems to be just fine (well, except for the bltGrAxis matter). 
>The author claims full downward compatibility and it "seems" to be true.

First I heard of it - I looked through the patches, it looks ok to me.
The big change is that it works with tk4.1a.

btw, the official BLT author keeps promising to put out a spunky new
version, but it's not forthcoming.