Re: Linux and BLT

[Carl Lipo]

> 
> >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.

Thank you! That was what I needed. I just got everything up and running. 

> 
> >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.
>