RE: NEdit still crashes

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> 
> Ah, I thought it was linked against LessTif 0.89.something. At least the
> guys at nedit.org say so.

He lied ;-)

> However, it's not so important at the moment. But I need to compile a
> modified version of NEdit to port our development environment. 
> Hope this one
> will do without crashes :)

What do you mean by modified version of NEdit.

> 
> After all this trouble last week, I'm very happy with XFree and 
> CygWin now.
> A lot of our sources (written for Solaris, HP-UX and Linux) 
> compile without
> any changes.


Well LessTif is a good alternative to real MOTIF, but it does
give problems with some applications.  

Suhaib

> 
> Karsten
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 10. August 2000 13:18
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: NEdit still crashes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Fleischer,
> > Karsten (K.)
> > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 8:13 AM
> > To: Cygwin-Xfree (E-mail)
> > Subject: NEdit still crashes
> >
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > with the latest sources I was able to build XFree and then 
> LessTif 0.91.4.
> > Then I started to compile other X-Applications like XV and XTar 
> (just for
> > testing purposes) and then DDD (with a few patches applied to
> > configure and
> > some other scripts). Everything worked.
> > But with NEdit I have the same problems as before. It crashes upon
> > XtOpenDisplay. I tried both versions, 5.1.1 and the 5.2 beta release.
> 
> 
> I think LessTif 0.91.4 has bugs for XtWidgets. I remember seeing
> a few patches for it XtWidgets on LessTif mailing list.  May be try
> grabing LessTif-current, which is usually the CVS
> version, instead of the Released Lesstif version.
> 
> > The binary distribution of NEdit 5.1.1 works.
> 
> The binary distribution of NEdit 5.1.1 has the MOTIF 2.0 libraries
> from Exceed XDK statically linked, after a bit of hacking ;-)  
> therefore you
> notice the
> differences and it does not crashes.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Karsten