I really want to try out Siag on my ancient little laptop, but it’s turning into a real bear.
The strange part is, I can get all the dependencies into place, compile all the support libraries and even Siag Office itself, but the resulting binaries claim they can’t find the libraries they want. If I go looking for them I can find them, so I know they’re installed, but Siag can’t see them.
On a hunch I tried modifying my PATH to include the location of the libraries, but that didn’t seem to help. It was just an idea.
Anyways, here’s what I was doing. See if you can get it working, and if you can, help me out. First I installed these dependencies.
sudo aptitude install build-essential checkinstall libxaw7-dev libxmu-dev libxmp-dev libncurses5-dev
(In retrospect, I don’t know if libxaw7-dev is the right version to install, but there were no errors, and the libxaw6 page suggests it’s out of date, and should not be used.)
Then I downloaded the mowitz, nextaw, xawm and siag source files from the Siag Web site. I compiled nextaw first, using checkinstall to make a deb package. Then I compiled xawm and finally mowitz, finishing with siag itself.
No errors, but the application says it’s missing a library — libMowitz. Try it for yourself and see if it complains to you too. Cheers and thanks in advance.
Edit: For reference. …
kmandla@sotec:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/siag
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7f54000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7f44000)
libMowitz.so.0 => not found
libneXtaw.so.0 => not found
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xb7f2d000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f1f000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7ece000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7ddc000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7dd3000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7dbb000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7da5000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7d7f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7c53000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7c4f000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7c4a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7c46000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f88000)
And yet. …
kmandla@sotec:~$ whereis libneXtaw libneXtaw: /usr/local/lib/libneXtaw.a /usr/local/lib/libneXtaw.la /usr/local/lib/libneXtaw.so kmandla@sotec:~$ ls /usr/local/lib/ libMowitz.a libneXtaw.la libXawM.so stXXXX80RBht libMowitz.la libneXtaw.so libXawM.so.1 stXXXX9l1h4N libMowitz.so libneXtaw.so.0 libXawM.so.1.0.0 stXXXXZA2mVl libMowitz.so.0 libneXtaw.so.0.15.1 python2.5 libMowitz.so.0.3.1 libXawM.a siag libneXtaw.a libXawM.la site_ruby
So is there a way to point the binary at the library? I wonder. …
Did you try runnning ldd to see where binaries are looking for the libraries?
DOH!
I had this same problem. I have tried on both my machine at work (CentOS) and my laptop (ubuntu 7.04). I tried setting various options in configure of both mowitz and siag, but to no avail. I also added things to my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, nothing. I placed links in places where I though it might be looking that pointed at /usr/local/lib, but still nothing.
Did you find a solution in the end?
Regards.
No, I never did. I don’t know if there’s some sort of inconsistency with the source files, or if I have a version mismatch or something, but I couldn’t find any combination that yielded a working application.
It was disappointing because I found other sites that claimed to have compiled it under Feisty, and got it to work. But I couldn’t make it play.
Moin,
the solution is to set a symbolic link to the library:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libMowitz.so.0.3.1 /usr/lib/libMowitz.so.0
That works.
Regards,
Christian
Thanks Christian. I’ll give this a try again; I’m interested to see how it behaves.
Hey, I got it to work on Hardy by grabbing the rpm from their site and compiling libXawM (they have the sources on their site).
I then moved libXawM.so.1 from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib/
It’s an older version (3.4.9 I believe), but hey, it works.