Re: [Update REQ 6077]: Geomview under FreeBSD

[matthieu at tigger.cs.colorado.edu]

>From: Stuart Levy <slevy>
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:57:38 -0600
>Message-Id: <199701201657.KAA16035 at euclid.geom.umn.edu>
>To: software@geom.umn.edu
>Subject: Re:  [ REQ 6077]: Geomview under FreeBSD
>
>Could you tell us which copy of the source release you picked up?
>The one you should get is the version to which the web page points,
>   ftp://geom.umn.edu/pub/software/geomview/geomview-1.6.1-src.tar.gz

Right. This is the version I used. I attempted the compile on a
machine running FreeBSD 2.1. Does this help at all?

>rather than the (much older) geomview-src.tar.gz package.  The 1.6.1 version
>should compile properly under FreeBSD, we're told.  We don't have a FreeBSD
>system at hand to build a binary release ourselves, though we're told that
>the upcoming FreeBSD CD-ROM will include a binary installable package
>created by Bill Fenner of Xerox PARC.

Could you provide me with Mr. Fenner's email address? Perhaps he could
put up the binary release for ftp. 

>We've never tried compiling geomview with lesstif -- assuming the other
>problems you're seeing disappear when you use a current geomview version,
>we'd be interested to hear whether it works with lesstif.

I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. 

 -Ray