Re: problems installing DDD

[Andrew Gaylard]

dm9 wrote:
> Hi there, 
> I am having problems installing DDD. I have downloaded ddd 3.3.10 and also 
> lesstif 0.94. I first 
> did a configure and then make on lesstif and that was fine. I then cd to ddd 
> 3.3.10 folder and 
> did a configure but am getting the following error,
>
>                   The Motif library '-lXm' could not be found.
>                   Please use the configure options '--with-motif-includes=DIR'
>                   and '--with-motif-libraries=DIR' to specify the Xm location.
>                   See the files 'config.log' and 'ddd/config.log'
>                   for further diagnostics.
>  
> I tried putting in the --with-motif......   commands but to no avail. I am not 
> sure what to put in 
> for DIR. I tried the following but I keep getting the same error,
>  
> ./configure 
> --with-motif-includes=/usr/local/src/lesstif-0.94.0/include/Motif-2.1/Xm 
> --with-motif-libraries=/usr/local/src/lesstif-0.94.0/lib
>  
> I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out with this, 
> Thanks, 
> Denis. 

Denis,

You should not be pointing DDD's configure at the sources for LessTif.
You need to ./configure; make; make install for LessTif first, then
for DDD.

So you might do the following:

cd lesstif-0.94.0
./configure --prefix=/opt/lesstif-0.94
make
make install

cd ../ddd-3.3.10
./configure --prefix=/opt/ddd-3.3.10 \
        --with-motif-includes=/opt/lesstif-0.94/include
        --with-motif-libraries=/opt/lesstif-0.94/lib
make
make install

I've just tried this, and it worked perfectly.

When ddd's configure runs, you should see a line similar to the
following:

...
checking for Motif... libraries /opt/lesstif-0.94.0/lib, headers 
/opt/lesstif-0.94.0/include

That shows *exactly* what's going on.

Cheers,
Andrew.