Re: succeeded in Xscreensaver+GTK on Solaris 2.8

[Utku Ozcan <ozcan ieee org>]

> Hi,
>
>
> Utku Ozcan writes:
>
> > 3. Not to mention, I have installed make-3.80, m4-1.4, autoconf-2.57,
> > automake-1.7.3 (http://www.gnu.org). Some tarballs require "aclocal-1.4"
> > instead of "aclocal" and "automake-1.4" instead of "automake" in $PATH,
> > therefore I have manually created symbolic link to "aclocal-1.4" and
> > "automake-1.4". (I don't know if this is automatically done-able during
> > installation of these programs)
>
> these packages require automake-1.4. That's why they explicitely use
> the versioned exectuable name. Instead of creating links to a wrong
> version, you should have installed automake-1.4. Recent patchlevels
> install versioned binaries and can coexist with automake-1.7
>
>
> Salut, Sven
>

Sven,

I haven't used automake-1.4 before, can't we say that automake-1.7 program
is backwards compatible with automake-1.4? What kind of side effects might
have the "symbolic link" workaround I've found above?

Regards,  Utku

PS: Additional info on my reference mail: xscreensaver-demo cannot show
some GTK demos in the windows correctly. Sometimes the program does not
respond fast mouse clicks of items on left, or responds very late. I have a
machine RAM of 2 GB with "limit stacksize 131072K" (Sun Ultra-80 double RISC).
OpenGL/Mesa3D had not been installed.