Re: tkWWW_0.9, SPARC, Solaris2

Joseph Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
Wed, 08 Sep 93 00:03:54 EDT


|> I tried to install tkWWW0.9 on our Solaris2 systems. The File
|> HTFile.c did not compile without modifications:

Thie file you are referring to is basically that of the core CERN
libwww 2.09a library. I've forwarded your message to the mailing list
www-talk@info.cern.ch to see if anyone there has ideas on what to do.

|> 1. NGROUPS was not defined in any include file. But there
|> was a define for NGROUPS_MAX (16) in /usr/include/limits.h.
|> I used that instead of NGROUPS.
|> 2. d_namlen did not exist. I used strlen(d_name).

|> After these modifications i could complie and link everything with
|> -DUSE_DIRENT -DNO_GETWD -DHAVE_GETCWD.

|> Now, when I start tkWWW I get the starting page from
|> http://tk-www.mit.edu:8001/tk-www/help.
|> But when I click on a hpertext butten ( e.g. Author ) tkWWW prompts
|> with the message
|> "Server process no longer exists".

|> After ack. tkWWW dies with the following message:

|> tkerror failed to handle background error.
|> Original error: file "file7" isn't open
|> Error in tkerror: can't invoke "toplevel" command: application has been
*
|> destroyed
|> Segmentation fault

|> Any hint about what I could have done wrong?

|> Guenter
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