Re: lesstif 0.93.94 and the "attempt to add non-widget ..." error

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Volker Quetschke wrote:

> In order to burn a few minutes and debug a grace (lesstif) problem
> (See thread "Grace (xmgrace) 5.1.12-1  graph program --  ...") I
> rebuild lesstif-0.93.94-1.
>
> A few patches were needed to use the build script, see the
> attached patch. (It also contains a slight modification to
> use autoreconf, proposed by Brian Ford)
>
> BUT it didn't help. When I build grace with lesstif-0.93.94
> (selfbuild or the testversion installed with setup) and
> start xmgrace I get this:
>
> --- snip ---
> $ grace-5.1.14/src/xmgrace.exe
> Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed
>
> Error: attempt to add non-widget child "DropSiteManager" to parent
> "xmgrace" which supports only widgets
> --- snip ---
>
> Using the same xmgrace.exe but downgrading to lesstif 0.93.91-6
> I can start grace. !?
>
> The lesstif faq <http://www.lesstif.org/FAQ.html#QU3.0> claims that
> this error stems from using the wrong order of linker flags, but I
> guess that 0.93.94 fails and 0.93.91 works contradicts this.
>
> The linker flags are: "../Xbae/Xbae/libXbae.a -lXm -lXpm -lXp -lXmu
>   -lXt -lXext -lX11  -lSM -lICE  ../cephes/libcephes.a
>   ../T1lib/libt1.a  -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lm" (from the actual build)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Volker
>
>

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