Some thoughts on a Linux Swarm Build

[Thor Sigvaldason]

Seth,


        After a week of trying different combinations, I have _just_ finished
building Swarm on a Linux box. I'll start with the specifics of my Linux
system:


        Slackware 3.0 

        From InfoMagic's April 1996 6 CD "Developer's Resource"

        Kernel 1.2.13

        ELF

        486DX-33

        20 Meg Ram

        X11R6

        This slackware release comes with gcc version 2.7.0. This was a real
problem, as one of the libraries that swarm builds (the swarmobject
library) will _not_ work properly unless you upgrade to gcc 2.7.2. I
used the GNU source for gcc included on one of the InfoMagic cdroms, but
I suspect that the source code from Santa Fe would also work (although
the .tgz file there is smaller). Building 2.7.2 took about four hours
and consumed about 50 megs of disk space before it was done.

        From your post, it seems you are having problems with the BLT
libraries. This was the only package of the three (ie. tclobject, BLT,
and swarm) that gave me no problems whatsoever, so I don't have too much
concrete advice for you at this point. I suspect you may have outdated
libraries. If you can't get it to build, I'd be happy to tar my BLT
stuff together and e-mail it to you, although if the libraries aren't
there to compile, then I'd be sceptical that any run time stuff would
work. 

        If you send me specific building errors it may jog my memory about
problems I encountered. One definite error I found is in the configure
file for tclobject. You have to change line 1359 of configure from:


                elif test -r $dir/libk.a; then


                elif test -r $dir/libtk.a; then


Good luck.


- Thor