[GRASS5] Re: installation/compiling instruction for GRASS on

[Malcolm Blue]

Thanks Mike.

I will test again on Win98.  I had suspected the fork() implementation.  
Either I was off base or they have cleaned it up.  Other X clients ran 
fine, so I didn't think it was in the Xlibs.  Either way, it is probably 
worth checking out.  I will see if I can make any progress with it.  As 
I recall, you had trouble with getting the XDriver running earlier this 
month on Win98.  Was that using the latest cygwin DLL?

Maybe the new release of XFree is better suited for our purpose.  I will 
let you know if I have success.

Malcolm 

Mike Thomas wrote:

> FYI
> 
>> 2.  For the paragraph on X-Servers, we should mention that the
>> Cygwin/XFree86 and Starnet servers have been tested with grass.  None of
>> the others have, as far as I know.
> 
> 
>  I tried some basic operations with the Nutcracker DEC XServer on NT4 SP5
> and
> it worked (sockets build).
> 
>  > In the March 22 version of the XWin package, there is an experimental
> 
>> server for win9x.  I hope to try it out to see if it works, but I still
>> suspect that the XDriver problems are caused by poor process management
>> on those platforms.  I still think that we should only try to support
>> grass on NT/2000.
> 
> 
> On Win98 I have compiled and successfully run a small socket communication
> example program which used fork as the XDriver does.  (The program
> had nothing to do with XWindows, just fork and sockets, sending text back
> and forth input via console stdio).
> 
> I suppose the problem could still be in process management but it is, I
> think, a
> positive sign for Win98.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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