[regex-coach] Not working on Gentoo Linux

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:36:23 +0200 (CEST), "Klavs Klavsen" <kl at vsen.dk> wrote:

> I would like to try out regex-coach - but I'm running on a Gentoo
> system - where OpenMotif-2.2 is not available (only 2.1) - as it
> does not work with many proprietary binaries :( - see here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29388

I remember having similar problems when I used Gentoo - I installed
2.2. anyway. (IIRC it /is/ available, it is just masked out.)

> Unfortunately your binary, I can't get yours to work when I have
> installed latest lesstif :(
>
> regex-coach binary says:
>
> write(1, "\nError: Motif version string (\"@"..., 56
> Error: Motif version string ("@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30") = 56
> write(1, ") indicates invalid library vers"..., 82) indicates invalid
> library version.  Requires (("Lesstif" "2.1") ("Motif" "2.2"))) = 82
>
> Unfortunately it does not seem to check for lesstif - which is available.
>
> I tried to mv the /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2 away to see if it would work
> but that gave me:
> Error: Motif version string ("@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 1.2 Release
> 0.93.94") indicates invalid library version.  Requires (("Lesstif" "2.1")
> ("Motif" "2.2")).

You might have to downgrade to an older version of LessTif... :(

> Should regex-coach not work with that? would it be possible to ask
> you to build your program with openmotif-2.1 - or do you really use
> features only in v2.2?

I can't "build with openmotif-2.1" - Regex Coach is built using the
LispWorks compiler from Xanalys[1], and the search for a suitable
Motif library is built into their CAPI toolkit. You might want to
search their Knowledgebase[2] for "OpenMotif" or "LessTif" - maybe
you'll find something that'll help you. (Note that Regex Coach is
built with the 4.3 compiler so not all entries apply.)

Or maybe someone on this mailing list has a pre-0.6.0 Linux version of
Regex Coach available which he can sent to you. (I don't,
unfortunately.)  0.5.x and earlier were built with the 4.2 compiler
and should work with OpenMotif 2.1 but you'll miss a couple of
bugfixes and new features.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I don't think I can help with another
binary. (I don't have the 4.2 compiler installed anymore and it would
be too much work to backport the code so that it'll work with 4.2 or
maintain two separate code trees.)

Cheers,
Edi.

[1] <http://www.lispworks.com/>
[2] <http://www1.xanalys.com/support/lisp/kbase.nsf/Technical+Documents/Public?OpenView>