Good morning, Net! This is a version of XView 3.2 for use with ELF compiler and libraries. It was built using gcc 2.6.4 snapshot 950414, libc 5.0.2 and ELF version if XFree86 3.1.1 by hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu), which is currently available from ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/pub/linux/X11/new. It may work with other setup, but at least you need ELF C and X libraries. The version of shared libraries compiled programs will look for is 3.2, with current revision being 3.2.0. It just seamed logical. If you want, you can change it by looking for 3.2.0 in source distribution config files and changing the number to something else. My patches should be applied xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz, which can be found on ftp.x.org. The diff in this distribution includes xview3L5 patches by Kenneth Osterberg (lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se or lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi), so you don't have to apply them first. The reason for including one patch but not another is that 3L5 diff doesn't apply (or compile) cleanly with xview3.2p1-X11R6 (actually Kenneth did much more work on porting than me). Also, I didn't include Slingshot or UITV3, because I am not using them, so I won't be a good tester. If there are any problems with this distribution, please let me know. I am a little busy with school projects, so please send a solution as well if you can. But just a bug report is sure better than nothing :) Please send e-mail to: Snow Cat aka Oleg Kibirev Those addresses are aliases of each other to let me read/send mail from a Linux PC over term without conflicts. Please send only ONE copy! With that, here is how to proceed: ^oo^ Choose the distribution: All files are currently on gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (129.8.1.19): /pub/sun4bin/src/xview ^oo^ xview3.2p1-X11R6-LinuxElf.bin.tgz - a binary snapshot of /usr/openwin. To install (be sure to exit X windows first): $ su # cd /usr/openwin/lib # mv *.a *.so* *.sa* /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib # or wherever your leftover a.out # libraries live # cd / # zcat /some/dir/xview3.2p1-X11R6-LinuxElf.bin.tgz | tar --preserve -xvf - Or, as a slower but safer method, mv /usr/openwin /usr/oldopenwin, extract the distribution and then copy any files that are not in .tgz and that you still need (eq workman or meminfo) back. ^oo^ xview3.2p1-X11R6-LinuxElf.patch.tgz - This is the patch mentioned above. To apply, you need to obtain xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz from ftp.x.org and then do: $ zcat xview3.2p1-X11R6-LinuxElf.patch.tgz | tar -xvf - $ zcat xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz | tar -xvf - $ cd xview3.2p1-X11R6 $ patch -p1 < ../LinuxElf.patch $ cd clients $ tar -xvf - ../../more_clients.tar Then, look at the next section for build instructions. Note that you have to install a fixed mkdirhier to /usr/X11R6/bin as well. ^oo^ xview3.2p1-X11R6-LinuxElf.tgz - This is my source tree, in case there is any trouble when applying patch. To build (!! READ THIS !! You can get very mysterous failures if you don't install files in config before building): Get mkdirhier from the same directory. Then install it: mv /usr/X11R6/bin/mkdirhier /usr/X11R6/bin/mkdirhier.old cp mkdirhier /usr/X11R6/bin chmod 755 mkdirhier mkdirhier.old can be confused by pathnames with excessive slashes, like /usr/openwin//bin. If you can't find my mkdirhier on ftp, just do: $ cat > mkdirhier < XView conversion, you'll need to rename sed files in /usr/openwin/bin to have a leading dot, for example, full1.sed -> .full1.sed and make some trivial pathname changes to cv2xview. My binary distribution already includes this. I'll include it in patches sometime later when I feel like recompiling XView to see if it works. This source tree only includes clients provided by Sun. If you want source for more Slackware clients, keep reading. ^oo^ olvwm4pl1-Linux.patch.gz. This is a patch to compile olvwm4 under Linux. Note that it's a quick-and-dirty port - I used BSD compatability library and some quick replacements just to make it work. If you can do a better job please let me know. To apply, get olvwm4 and olvwm4-Patch01 from ftp.x.org:/R5contrib (currently). Then do, for example: $ cd olvwm4 $ zcat ../olvwm4.tgz | tar -xvf - $ patch -p1 < ../olvwm4-Patch01 $ zcat ../olvwm4pl1-Linux.patch.gz | tar -xvf - $ xmkmf $ make $ su # make install A precompiled binary is included in xview3.2 binary distribution. You have to compile Flex with Elf compiler for this to work, as olvwm4 needs libfl.a. ^oo^ olvwm4pl1-Linux.tgz - This is the full source code if you can't use patch. Proceed as above. ^oo^ More? You can try re-compiling other programs in /usr/openwin/bin to use ELF instead of a.out. If you can do it with all of them, you can delete old libraries in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib. I was more interested in developing new programs that use ELF-specific dynamic linking, so I just left them around to run workman :) -- Snow ^oo^ Cat _ -> <- aka Oleg Kibirev ___(_) _ _)_ / _) \_.-._ |___/ Purr!