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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!cdfsga.fnal.gov!dejan From: dejan@cdfsga.fnal.gov (Dejan Vucinic) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: I _compiled_ olvwm on 0.9, anyone else? Date: 2 Sep 1993 01:19:10 GMT Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <263hmf$pv@fnnews.fnal.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: cdfsga.fnal.gov Keywords: open look olwm olvwm window manager Hi Net, After some disgusting poking I managed to compile olvwm 3.something on 0.9 so if there is interest I can drop it to some ftp site. However, I don't think this is the way to go 'cause what I did was really terrible. First of all, it was persistently trying to find LC_MESSAGE (!?) in locale.h, so if there is some sun-guru out there perhaps he might explain this? Second, the code refers to step() and compile() (!??) that obviously don't exist anywhere, at least on my box so I (ahem 8*) commented them out... It SEEMS to be working just fine, but if it explodes on your box don't ask me. :) Now serious: LC_MESSAGE you shouldn't need unless you're opposite of [Greenwich|Date Line] and really want your favourite language in menus. The other problem is mentioned in README and those functions seem to be resolved on SunOS---got no clue as I never touched a Sun. This part seems to be connected to regular expression matching or somehting like that, so it might blow up with the first config file... Don't know, didn't try it. If anyone already did this please enlighten me. BTW, the whole thing is AWFUL! those people are leaving SPACES after continuation backslash in a Makefile, imagine what kind of nasty language does BSD (and GNU) make produce on that kind of food. Yacc also screams on olvwmrc.y. But the virtual screens were worth the trouble. ;> Cheers, Dejan