On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Andre> #6 0x40210224 in vfprintf () at vfprintf.c:1565
> > Andre> #7 0x40217d27 in fprintf () at fprintf.c:36
> >
> > Bad xforms version. Poor xforms tries to output a friendly error
> > message,
>
> Which kind of error message? Any way to suppress this from within LyX?
Any error message. Usually this is to say that a colour wasn't
available (8bit colour map and insufficient colours available).
> > and bad glibc2.[12] just crashes lyx because it is jealous to
> > see xforms has been compiled against glibc2.0.
>
> I suspected something like that, but I don't know what xforms and glibc to
> use myself.
>
> What are acceptable combinations, and what could be the easiest way to get
> there given no root access? What information is needed? Is the output of
> 'lyx --version' and 'ldd lyx' enough?
If you get any output from the below commands then you have the
xforms that was built for glibc2.0. If you don't get output you have
the xforms build for glibc2.1 (or later):
strings /usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.88 | grep vfprintf
(substitute the path to your libforms installation and its actual
version)
So then you can tell your administrator that he/she is a complete burk
for installing the wrong xforms if they're running glibc-2.[^0] and
have a glibc-2.0 linked xforms. Then before he/she slaps you silly
tell them where to get the right xforms. Either get the one from
Kayvan's site (might be mirrored on ftp.lyx.org but I can't remember)
or go straight for the original tarball at:
http://world.std.com/~xforms/ftp/ftp.html
to select which platform (say Linux/i386 and then "elf" format binary)
and choose the glibc2.1 tarball for glibc-2.[^0] systems or the glibc2
tarball for glibc-2.0 systems.
That said the tarballs seem to be a bit older than I'd expect for the
supposed main site. The latest 0.89 tarball is dated 21st of June
2000.
Allan. (ARRae)
