Re: [vile] Error from xvile after building latest motif version

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 03:45:51PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:54:41AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm building xvile with motif widgets on a Slackware 11 Linux box.
> > >
> > >It's a virtually unmodified Slackware 11.  I am building version 9.5k
> > >of xvile (i.e. the 9.5 version with all patches applied), the
> > >configure line is just:-
> > >
> > >   ./configure --with-screen=Motif --with-x
> > >
> > >Everything goes OK, it builds and installs, but when I try to run it I
> > >get:-
> > >
> > >   Error: XtCreateWidget "menuEntry" requires non-NULL parent
> > 
> > It's supposed to work (I see in the changelog that I made a fix in 9.5i 
> > for Motif).
> > 
> > Is this OpenMotif or LessTif?
> > 
> How do I tell?  On looking I suspect it's LessTif as I have a lesstif
> manual page but nothing at all relating to OpenMotif.

Offhand I recall that the header and library files are installed in different
directories.  For political reasons, LessTif's less likely to be broken by
random Xorg hacking (which has broken various layout issues in Xt over the past
year or so).
 
> > I usually just build the terminfo- and Xaw-flavors for general use, and 
> > make test-builds for everything when there's some configuration change (or 
> > nearing a release).
> > 
> I just tried a build with:-
>     ./configure --with-screen=Xaw
> 
> and the result is just the same 
>     Error: XtCreateWidget "menuEntry" requires non-NULL parent
> 
> 
> I could try the same build on my old Slackware system (where I have
> 9.3 at the moment) and see if the same happens.

That would be a good quick check.  This evening I can check (but don't
have a recent Slackware. I can recall running xvile recently in Debian.
I have OpenMotif on the older Debian, and iirc on Fedora5.

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