Re: Problems running dia on Solaris 9

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem getting Dia to run on my Solaris 9 box.
> 
> Solaris 9
> Dia .90
> libunicode-0.4
> gdk-pixbuf-0.21.0
> libart_lgpl-2.3.10*
> gtk 1.2
> glib 1.2
> 
> built using gcc 3.2
[...nothing harmful...]
> When I try to run it, the splash screen appears for about half a second,
> then it core dumps.

A stack trace would be useful.  Run Dia in GDB (if using run_dia.sh, set
DEBUGGER to gdb) and do bt when it crashes.

[...]
> 
> * The configure script looks for libart-config, but I had
> libart2-config.  I created a symbolic link.

That could well be your problem.  Major versions are generally not
compatible.  You should find libart version 1.something and use that.

-Lars

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