This file contains some known problems with particular releases, and
suggests work arounds or upgrades as appropriate. For more general
information about LessTif, you may want to see the faq.
Release 0.87.0
- No important problems known.
Release 0.86.9
- No important problems known.
Release 0.86.5
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- Problem:
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The version number in configure.in wasn't updated properly.
This will probably only affect the LesstifVERSION_STRING in
Xm.h.
- Solution:
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This is pretty safe to ignore, but for the pedantic,
upgrade to lesstif-current.tar.gz, or edit
include/Motif-1.2/Xm/Xm.h, and set LesstifVERSION_STRING to
"GNU LessTif 0.86 5".
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- Problem:
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Mwm doesn't build out of the box. Error messages complain
about LEXLIB and such.
The reason is that we inadvertently used an automake 1.3
macro in configure.in while our server still runs automake 1.2.
- Clean solution:
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Replace the call of AM_PROG_LEX in configure.in by
AC_PROG_LEX and AC_DECL_YYTEXT. (These need to be
two distinct lines with just one word each on them.)
Then run autoheader; automake -i; autoconf
(as you would need to with a copy of our CVS sources),
then rerun configure.
- Quick solution:
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edit clients/Motif-1.2/mwm/Makefile and replace the
strings @LEXLIB@ and @LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT@ .
If you have flex, then @LEXLIB@ needs to become -lfl.
If you have lex, then @LEXLIB@ needs to become -ll.
Either way, @LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT@ should be lex.yy .
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- Problem:
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The NOTES files in releases from 0.85 up to and including
0.86.5 aren't an accurate description of what changed.
This is due to bugs in our release script.
- Solution:
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We're trying to reconstruct the NOTES files so releases
after 0.86.5 will have a decent content in it.
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- Problem:
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A 2.0 build fails because of an undefined symbol
"TB_ToggleMode".
- Quick solution:
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Edit lib/Xm-2.0/ToggleB.c. Around line 1011, find the
reference to to TB_ToggleMode, and replace the entire
if/then/else clause with:
TB_VisualSet(w) = TB_IndicatorSet(w) = !TB_Set(w);
- Better solution:
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Upgrade to lesstif-current.
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