Max: I saw this too. The problem is, we are linking the libs in the right order. It looks like the linker is not respecting that.
-Jeff On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Max Horn wrote: > I searched the net and found this: > > http://www.perchine.com/dyp/x/motif-faq/part9/faq-doc-24.html > > To quote it: > > > >269) Why do I get "Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent"? > > > >[Last modified: May 95] > > > >Answer: You're linking your libraries in the wrong order. You must link -lXm > >*before* -lXt. > > > >Thanks to Ken Lee, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Ken Sall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) adds: This same error occurs if you combine Motif and > >Athena widgets in the same application. If you link with "-lXaw" before "- > >lXm", you get the runtime error. However, if you switch the order of the two > >libraries, there is no problem. For example: > > > > cc mothena.c -o mothena -lXm -lXaw -lXt -lXmu -lX11 > > > > > In retrospect, I seem to remember something like this happened > before. I am not yet sure what exactly we have to do to fix this: > i.e. whether change lesstif, XFree, or the affected packages. But at > least now we've got a pointer. > > > > Max > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel