0.93 on Digital Unix and Linux

[John Pybus]

Phil Benchoff wrote:
> 
> Developers,
>   Let me thank each one of you for putting survex together.  I use Digital
> Unix at work and Linux at home, so I was very happy to find an open-source
> program to map some survey data.
> 
> Here are some comments on quick tests on Digital Unix 4.0F and RH Linux 6.1
> with 0.93.
> 
> DU:
> 
>   Don't have gtk-- and didn't try aven.
>   Compiled ok, but several messages about incompatible pointer types.
>   xcaverot - All of the buttons and the two controls on the right are
>     empty (no text or symbols).  They appear to function properly.  Perhaps
>     they are displaying in black on black.  xcaverot core dumps with a
>     segv sometimes.  I haven't looked at the core file to see where yet.
>     A common problem is with the 64-bit longs on this platform.

I started using xcaverot under Digital Unix, and seem to remember
getting the 64bit issues sorted at the time (1996).  However its
possible that changes made since then have broken it again, I've only
been trying it on Linux more recently.  The black-on-black issue, may be
something to do with default colours on your Xserver being set
differently.

Xcaverot isn't really under much active development at the moment.  I
got it working in 96, and added a few experimental bits shortly after,
but never got round to properly tidying it up.

I have access to a Digital Unix box, and will have a look when I get a
moment to two.

Yours

John Pybus