Re: EDM text entry: segmentation fault

[Dmitry Teytelman <dim@dimtel.com>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:52:43 -0500,  Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> I'm not a regular EDM user and I can't help with experience of this crash, but
> it might be helpful to know whether your EDM was built using Lesstif or
> OpenMotif. ÂWe know there are usually problems when MEDM is built with
> Lesstif, and I'm guessing that EDM might have the same kinds of issues.
>
> Also, is this built for a 32-bit or 64-bit architecture?

EDM is built using openMotif on 32-bit architecture.

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:37:14 -0700,  Eric Norum <eric@norum.ca> wrote:
> And it's not just lesstif vs. openmotif. ÂOn OS X at least, we've seen odd behaviour of inspector windows and such with some versions of openmotif.

I don't remember the exact details, but I do recall spending a day or
two debugging EDM code after upgrading from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8.
EDM version that was rock-solid under FC6 would segfault regularly in
F8. In the end I traced it to the difference between openMotif 2.2.3
and 2.3.0

Since that experience I always compile a local version of openMotif
from ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/2.2/2.2.3/src/openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz
and build EDM against that library.

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Dmitry Teytelman