Re: OS X edm/medm openmotif woes

[Wang Xiaoqiang <xiaoqiang.wang@psi.ch>]

Hi Lewis,

Last time (3 years ago) during the fresh installation, I did not 
remember tuning for flat_namespace variant.
But I will keep this in mind in case of I need to make a fresh install.
Thanks.

Best
Xiaoqiang


On 11/17/2016 04:43 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 11/17, Wang Xiaoqiang (PSI) wrote:
> > Hi Lewis,
> >
> > After checking, my medm is linked only to MacPorts libraries.
> Hi, Xiaoqiang.
>
> OK, thanks for confirming.
>
> > As you said, the key issue is the flat_namespace flag. Luckily
> > Macports handles that automatically if the xorg-libXt is installed as
> > a dependency to openmotif.
> I'm not a MacPorts expert, but my understanding is that it does *not*
> handle that automatically.  If you update your local ports tree and
> rebuild, I think it will fail on x11/openmotif because x11/xorg-libXt
> was not built as a flat-namespace shared library.  In order to build
> x11/xorg-libXt as a flat-namespace shared library, you will need to
> enable the flat_namespace variant for x11/xorg-libXt.  That doesn't
> happen automatically.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lewis