xview anyone ?

[Hans de Goede]

Christian Iseli wrote:
> Hi Pat,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:39:35 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/~pdlmd/xview-3.2-0.1.p4.src.rpm
>>
>> It was not an easy task, but now it's done. Normally, the imake files
>> are more or less FHS compliant now, and I even use them to do the
>> staged install of xview itself. However if treetool uses other variables
>> to construct the directories, you may have to modify paths in files in 
>> config/XView.*.
>>
>> I had to install some fonts, that's a bit strange since they are listed in
>> the fonts.dir file in /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc. I tested a bit and it seemed
>> that using fontconfig didn't worked, that's why I also added the fonts to 
>> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc. The X and Xfs servers seems to have to be
>> restarted before those fonts are taken into account. Don't know if all that
>> is normal or if I did something wrong.
>>
>> I tested the ol*wm window managers, they seemed to work, and also the 
>> clock program seems to be functionnal.
>>
>> The difference between this and the debian package are
>> * I put together the 2 ol*wm packages
>> * I put xview_xgettext and xview_msgfmt in xview-clients and not 
>>   xview-devel (the idea is to have multi lib parallel installable 
>>   devel package).
> 
> Thanks a lot.  I started to work on this, and after some further tweaks
> got xview to compile in mock for FC-5, and treetool too.
> 
> I got treetool to work on i386 machines.
> 
> There remains some problems though: on x86_64 the function
> copy_va_to_av goes into an infinite loop when dealing with pointers.
> Must be some 64-bit issue.  This happens both using treetool and clock.
> 
> I put my current working copy of the packages SRPMS in
> ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/
> 

1) Have you checked Debian's packages of this (if they have any) usually with hard to package software
   its a good idea to start with all Debian's patches (or atleast thosw which seem to make sense) that
   might fix this.

2) If you can give me a shortlist of instructions howto reproduce this then I can take a look at my 64
   bit machine at home (work doesn't have any 64 bit machines yet). As time permits of course.

Regards,

Hans