Re: [Closed REQ 5107]: Re: BETA TESTING THE 1.5 PRELEASE

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> From: "Mr J.B. Gavin" <J.B.Gavin at maths.bath.ac.uk>
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 14:01:29 BST
> To: software@geom
> Subject: Re: BETA TESTING THE 1.5 PRELEASE
> Message-Id: <9410221401.aa04676 at pipit.maths.Bath.AC.UK>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just obtained release 1.5 of geomview
> 
>         /priv/daeron/bin/geomview-sun4.x11.tar.Z
> 
> from ftp.geom.umn.edu and I am BETA TESTING THE 1.5 PRELEASE.
> 
> I extracted the files from the tar file and ran the program.
> First I clicked on the clock on the X-Geomview window, to
> get a clock on the screen as expected.
> But when I selected PS snapshot it didn't open up a window 
> as expected.
> 
> Instead the line 
> 
>         ld.so: libXt.so.4: not found
> 
> printed on the standard output.
> 
> With V1.4 this did not happen, I got the PS Snapshot window and
> could prooduce the postscript version of the image in the window.
> 
> Is V1.5 meant to be different from V1.4 in this respect?
> If V1.5 is different to V1.4, is there any easy way of 
> overcoming this problem, to get the PS Snapshot window?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John.
> 
> P.S.: I am on a Sun Sparc under SunOS Release 4.1.3
>

John,

  First, thanks for the quick feedback. The problem you experienced occured
because the pssnap module was dynamically linked with X11R5 libraries and 
you probably didn't have X11R5 installed on your system. Thus, pssnap was
unable to find the correct shared library and just exited. To remedy this
problem we have relinked the pssnap and animate modules statically (these
are the only two modules that use X/Motif) and repacked them in the
Geomview 1.5 distribution. Just grab the sun4 distribution again and pssnap
should work fine.

-Daeron