xps
Process tree display and manipulation for the X Window System.
by Rocky Bernstein


Sometimes xps has bugs. Here are some hints for isolating them; the more information you can give me about the problem, the better the odds that someone will be able to fix. But, if you don't have time to go through these steps, please report the bug anyway -- even vague bug reports can be better than no bug report at all.


BASICS

What are you doing here? Go read README, and then the man page to make sure you have the necessary prerequistes for building/running the program and to make sure the program is supposed to do what you expect it to do.

Do you have the most recent version? Go make sure. http://www.netwinder.org/~rocky/xps-home/.

COMPILATION PROBLEMS

If you get an error running the configure script, the first thing you should try is deleting the config.cache file, and running again. If that doesn't fix it, the information I'll need to see to make sense of the problem is the following:

Make sure you blow away the config.cache file before regenerating this info, or else the config.log file will be mostly empty/useless.

Experience seems to show that the most common configure problem is that sites have gcc installed, but installed improperly. The configure script will always try to use gcc in preference to another compiler if gcc exists, so if gcc exists but is broken, it won't work. Your options are:

before doing this, you'll need to nuke config.cache.

If you get errors about not being able to find Motif (the Xm/ header files), and you can't find them on your system, then your system is horked and your vendor is lame. Perhaps the problem is that you don't have some kind of ``development option'' Xm/ (Motif) is available on all commercial systems except SunOS 4.x and some early releases of Solaris. For Linux and other free Unixes systems, a Motif clone is available from http://www.lesstif.org/.

RUN-TIME PROBLEMS


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