Re: IRIX Patch Problem

Graham Barlow (gkb1@bohr.york.ac.uk)
Thu, 29 May 1997 10:23:00 +0100

On May 20, 4:08am, wem@bruker.de wrote:
> Subject: Re: IRIX Patch Problem
>
> David R. Kinney wrote:
>
> > Specifically, my problem was that installation of patch SG0001479
> > prevented Xwinnmr from starting up. Typing "xwinnmr" (or various
> > permutations of that) would return the error message, "Argument
> > expected" and end the process. Removal of patch 1479 solved the
> > problem.
>
> To run XWIN-NMR 1.3 on a SGI computer under IRIX 5.3 with patch 1479
> installed, in the /u/prog/xwin-nmr1.3/uxnmr script line 15
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$udir/prog/$version/shlib
> must be replaced by:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$udir/prog/$version/shlib
>
> XWIN-NMR 1.3 patch level 8 which is not released yet will contain
> this modification.

Security patch 2064, announced today 29-may, also causes this problem; again
the fix mentioned by Werner solves the problem.

Graham

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