Running nedit on AIX 4.3

[Michael Abdow]

Thanks for the reply, Andrew.

I specified the -DHAVE_XMVERSIONSTRING in the aix Makefile, recompiled
without any problems, but the "problem" remained.

To answer your question, I compiled on each system. However, I did try
running the good binary on the bad box, but the same message gets
displayed.

The compiler and motif versions, between the two AIX 4.3 boxes do
differ, as shown below.

Good AIX4.3:
  X11.adt.motif             4.3.3.50  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Application
                                                 Development Toolkit
Motif 
  X11.html.en_US.motif       4.3.3.0  COMMITTED  Motif 2.1 Guides - U.
S.
  X11.motif.lib             4.3.3.75  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif
Libraries 
  X11.motif.mwm             4.3.3.75  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Window
  X11.msg.en_US.motif.lib    4.3.0.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif
Libraries
  X11.msg.en_US.motif.mwm    4.3.0.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Window
Mgr
  xlC.aix43.rte              4.0.2.1  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime for
AIX 4.3 
  xlC.cpp                    4.3.0.1  COMMITTED  C for AIX Preprocessor
  xlC.msg.en_US.cpp          4.3.0.1  COMMITTED  C for AIX Preprocessor
  xlC.msg.en_US.rte          4.0.2.0  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime
  xlC.rte                    4.0.2.0  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime 

Bad AIX4.3:
  X11.adt.motif              4.3.2.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Application
                                                 Development Toolkit
Motif 
  X11.motif.lib              4.3.2.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif
Libraries 
  X11.motif.mwm              4.3.2.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Window
  X11.samples.apps.motifdemos
                             4.3.2.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Sample Motif
Demos 
  xlC.cpp                    4.3.0.1  COMMITTED  C for AIX Preprocessor
  xlC.rte                    3.6.4.0  COMMITTED  C Set ++ for AIX
Application

The oslevel on both machines report 4.3.2.0.

Should I consider upgrading the motif package on the BAD AIX box?

Cheers,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at nedit.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at nedit.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew Hood
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:17 PM
To: General NEdit discussion list
Subject: Re: Running nedit on AIX 4.3

Michael Abdow wrote:
>>./nedit -V
> 
> NEdit 5.5
> Sep 30, 2004
> 
>      Built on: AIX, POWER, IBM xlC
>      Built at: Jan 10 2007, 17:05:59
>    With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.0] Running Motif: 2.1 
> [unknown]
>        Server: NetSarang Computer, Inc. 2070
>        Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x25)
>        Locale: C
> 
> Running 'nc' produces the same message.

It isn't the same message. 'nc -V' doesn't report the server and Motif
versions. On AIX you can specify -DHAVE__XMVERSIONSTRING and get more
information. See makefiles/Makefile.aix for details.

Since 4.x is out of support you aren't going to get a lot of help. I
still have a couple of 4.3.3 boxes, but not for much longer.

Which compiler and which Motif? Get the info from lslpp on each system.

Did you compile on each system or on one 4.3.2 and try to run on the
others? Code compiled on the oldest version is "usually" compatible,
although different RMLs may not be.

FYI, the latest compiler for AIX finally lets you compile the complete
source with optimisation. textDisp.c does not have to be treated
differently.

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