Re: Building problem

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 20:52, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe I have on the discussion list more luck.
>
> Bert
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:32, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does anybody has any building problems lately?
>>>
>>> I have really a strange problem. After installing Ubuntu 10.04 freshly
>>> on my notebook, I can't run a self build nedit binary anymore. The
>>> error message is;
>>>
>>> Error: Shell widget nedit has zero width and/or height
>>>
>>> The offender is in source/nedit.c:516:
>>>
>>>    XtRealizeWidget(TheAppShell);
>>>
>>> I have tried to reproduce this with a minimal X application (see
>>> attached file), which showed the same error, but than suddenly stopped
>>> to show this error.
>>>
>>> Any help would be very appreciated.
>>
>> Just curious, are you linking to Lesstif on OM?
>
> I could reproduced this error with the appshell.c code without linking
> to motif. Anyway I have only tested openmotif (self-build 2.3.2, 2.3.3
> and ubuntu 2.2.3).
>
> That looked like this (out from memory):
>
> 1. compile appshell.c without motif
> 2. run appshell
>  -> Error: Shell widget appShell has zero width and/or height
> 3. compile appshell.c with motif (i.e. -DWITH_MOTIF and -lXm)
> 4. run appshell
>  -> works as expected
> 5. compile appshell.c without motif
> 6. run appshell
>  -> works as expected
>
> So I assumed some "memory" from X that remembers some dimensions for
> this app. This was on the weekend. Yesterday I tried it again and it
> didn't work anymore. The appshell (w or w/o motif) always worked. Only
> the self-build nedit does not.
>

The solution was vary simple: I had -lXm after -lXt in the
commandline, which must be in-front of it.

> Bert
>
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