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Subject: Re: edm 1-11-1g segfault in FC9
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "Adams, Billy R. \(LARC-D401B\)\[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES CO\]" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:09:12 -0500
On Monday 23 June 2008 08:59:20 Adams, Billy R. (LARC-D401B)[RAYTHEON 
TECHNICAL SERVICES CO] wrote:
>
>     What I have found since Fedora Core 6, newer versions (and mainly
> based on Fedora 7) Fedora becomes extremely difficult replace lesstif
> with openmotif.  More and more, the newer Fedora versions are becoming
> dependant on lesstif.  Removing lesstif cause more things to not work
> (or not work correctly).
>      But even more important in the EPICS world, it becomes harder to
> get EPICS code to work.  Openmotif is supported by EPICS code. Lesstif
> is not supported by EPICS code and this has been stated by developers
> that their management does not permit support of lesstif.

It's not that they don't permit us to support lesstif, we just don't have 
anyone with time to do it â patches are always welcome.  Actually the 
necessary changes to get MEDM to build with lesstif are available in the CVS 
version (thanks to Bob Soliday), but I don't know if he's done any extensive 
testing with them or not.

>      In summary, it is my belief that Fedora Core 6 is the last Fedora
> OS that is usable by EPICs code.  I must use at least Fedora Core 4
> since I have RAID disk controllers.  I have been unable to use Fedora 7,
> 8, & 9.

Since the APS uses Fedora significantly (we're currently on RHEL3 and FC6, 
upgrading to FC8 slowly) we are going to have to continue to be able to build 
our code (MEDM, ALH, StripTool, etc.) on it for a long time to come; the 
future for the EPICS Motif tools should not be quite as bleak as you believe.

I don't know where our sysadmins get the rpms from, but my FC8 development 
system currently has the following openmotif packages installed:
	openmotif-2.3.0-1
	openmotif-devel-2.3.0-1
I can't build medm on this system right now because it's missing libXmu-devel, 
but I don't expect any problems once I have that (and anything else missing) 
installed.  I guess the MEDM documentation should probably list the packages 
needed for building it, but we can't do that for all distros.

Our FC6 systems have these:
	openmotif-2.3.0-0.1.9.3.fc6.ccrma
	openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.1.9.3.fc6.ccrma

Our older operational application servers running RHEL 3 use these packages:
	openmotif-2.2.2-16
	openmotif-devel-2.2.2-16

APS is not responsible for edm, hopefully John Sinclair will respond about 
that.

- Andrew
-- 
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds


Replies:
Re: edm 1-11-1g segfault in FC9 John Hammonds
Re: edm 1-11-1g segfault in FC9 John Sinclair
References:
edm 1-11-1g segfault in FC9 Adams, Billy R. (LARC-D401B)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES CO]

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