> > Likely (to me) problems are
> > 1 GLIBC has some incompatibilities with LIBC; perhaps the software depend
> s
> > on old behaviour even though it compiles well enough.
>
> If its threaded it may not be able to cope with pre-emption. If its got buggy
> memory allocation it will trip up differently
In my searches, I discovered that cvs had memory allocation problems; this
seemed the most likely explanation of those I saw.
> > 2 They used Real Motif. I'm using lesstif's imitation of Motif 1.2 (it
> > doesn't even compile with 2.0).
>
> Lesstif may well be a factor. You might be saner porting it to a different
> modern gui kit anyway, whichever takes your fancy
I was hoping nobody would say this; I do recall lesstif had problems a
year or so ago; I was hoping there might be fixed.
I'm not familiar with the API for any GUI on Linux; that would be a
challenge.
I think I will break out the good ole electric fence & see if that helps.
The good point is that it falls over so often it shouldn't be hard find a
failure.
PS
Tennis is on the TV, Cricket on the wireless. If you aren't making zeds,
might as well have fone not making them. CU.
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