Re: About forms...

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 15 Jan 97 13:46:21 PST

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> I just tried to get a copy of forms2.3.tar.Z and was wondering
> why it gave me the error called
>
> cc -O -I../FORMS -L../FORMS -s fd_rubber.o fd_select.o fd_names.o fd_objects.o fd_attribs.o fd_forms.o fd_groups.o fd_file.o fd_print.o fd_theforms.o fd_help.o fd_main.o -o fdesign -lforms -lfm_s -lgl_s -lm -lc_s
> ld64: FATAL 9: I/O error (-lfm_s): No such file or directory
> cc INTERNAL ERROR: /usr/lib32/cmplrs/ld64 returned non-zero status 32
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)

This I take is is the old GL based forms. On what system are you
trying to build? What OS?

> when I tried to do "make". Also tell me how can I get a copy of
> xforms from bxforms-075.tgz ??

I'm not sure I understand this question. If you mean how do you
unpack the file, type

zcat bxforms-075.tgz | tar xvf -

and you should get a directory with XForms libraries and executables
in it as a reward for your effort.

BTW, this is a *very* old version of XForms. You should get the
Latest And Greatest before trying to use it. It has much improved
since 0.75.

spl