Compiling Siag is driving me nuts

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don’t know if libxaw7-dev is the right version to install, but there were no errors, and the libxaw6 page suggests it’s out of date, and should not be used.)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. …