Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#18181 closed defect (fixed)

openmotif apps (xpdf, grace) fail to run in Leopard

Reported by: someuser12 Owned by: ghosthound
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: motif non-widget child Cc: sndr.sndr@…, kernelblaha@…, raphael@…, volonakis@…, buldum@…, birdflyin@…, mf2k (Frank Schima), bela_b@…, cedric.ody@…, jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia), 0xced (Cédric Luthi), someuser12, furio.mf@…, sergio.roa@…, gahs@…
Port: openmotif

Description

This is a similar problem to #18114.

I'm trying to run xpdf on a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5 with Xquartz 2.3.2 and a fresh install of MacPorts 1.7.0.

xpdf builds fine, but when I try to run it I get the following error message:

Warning: Widget must be a VendorShell.
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "xpdf" which supports only widgets

The same problem happens on another system where xpdf @3.02_2 built several month ago is running fine but a new build of xpdf @3.02_4 fails with the same error message.

This message might be caused by problems with openmotif (see http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/part9/section-29.html, but here there is seemingly no problem of library order on the link command line).

Change History (24)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

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comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by someuser12

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comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by furio.mf@…

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comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by someuser12

Same problem with xdvi (xdvi from port texlive_base version 2007_5 fails to run with error message 'Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "xdvi" which supports only widgets').

comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by gahs@…

CC me too.

I was able to recover proper xpdf functioning by backing off to slightly earlier versions of openmotif and xpdf:

  sudo port deactivate openmotif
  sudo port activate openmotif@2.3.1-1_0
  sudo port deactivate xpdf
  sudo port activate xpdf@3.02_2

Now xpdf works again for me. Luckily I had these earlier versions still installed (but not "active"), so it was easy to revert temporarily.

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comment:8 Changed 15 years ago by sergio.roa@…

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comment:9 Changed 15 years ago by 0xced (Cédric Luthi)

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comment:11 Changed 15 years ago by 0xced (Cédric Luthi)

The workaround explained by Raphael in #18114 seems to also work for xpdf.

comment:12 in reply to:  11 Changed 15 years ago by sergio.roa@…

Replying to cedric.luthi@…:

The workaround explained by Raphael in #18114 seems to also work for xpdf.

i tried without success :(

comment:13 in reply to:  description Changed 15 years ago by ghosthound

Status: newassigned

Replying to macosx12345@…:

This is a similar problem to #18114.

I'm trying to run xpdf on a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5 with Xquartz 2.3.2 and a fresh install of MacPorts 1.7.0.

xpdf builds fine, but when I try to run it I get the following error message:

Warning: Widget must be a VendorShell.
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "xpdf" which supports only widgets

The same problem happens on another system where xpdf @3.02_2 built several month ago is running fine but a new build of xpdf @3.02_4 fails with the same error message.

This message might be caused by problems with openmotif (see http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/part9/section-29.html, but here there is seemingly no problem of library order on the link command line).

I agree, the link order appears to be okay.

The problem seems to be triggered in xpdf/XPDFViewer.cc a line 1676:

pageNumText = XmCreateTextField(toolBar, "pageNum", args, n);

and occurs in libXt (libXt-1.0.5/src/Create.c in _XtCreateWidget()):

if (!ext
!ext->accepts_objects) {

params[1] = XtName(parent); num_params = 2; XtAppErrorMsg(XtWidgetToApplicationContext(parent),

"nonWidget", XtNxtCreateWidget,XtCXtToolkitError,

"attempt to add non-widget child \"%s\" to parent \"%s\" which supports only widgets",

params, &num_params);

}

If someone has more time to hunt this out (and/or more familiarity w/ X11 stuff, mine is horribly rusty) that'd be great, esp. as it seems to apply to multiple ports using OpenMotif.

comment:14 Changed 15 years ago by ghosthound

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cc'ing our x11 master

comment:15 Changed 15 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)

Can you please run the following for me? There may be some rogue libs or binaries still linking against the system X11 libs instead of the MacPorts ones:

cd /opt/local/lib
for f in *dylib; do otool -L $f | grep -q /usr/X11 && echo $f; done

cd /opt/local/bin
for f in *; do otool -L $f | grep -q /usr/X11 && echo $f; done

comment:16 in reply to:  15 Changed 15 years ago by ghosthound

Replying to jeremyhu@…:

Can you please run the following for me? There may be some rogue libs or binaries still linking against the system X11 libs instead of the MacPorts ones:

cd /opt/local/lib
for f in *dylib; do otool -L $f | grep -q /usr/X11 && echo $f; done

cd /opt/local/bin
for f in *; do otool -L $f | grep -q /usr/X11 && echo $f; done

No output (i.e. nothing dragging in /usr/X11).

comment:17 Changed 15 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)

Cc: sndr.sndr@… volonakis@… buldum@… birdflyin@… macsforever2000@… bela_b@… cedric.ody@… cedric.luthi@… rob.kalescky@… added
Port: openmotif added; xpdf removed
Summary: xpdf fails to run in Leopardopenmotif apps (xpdf, grace) fail to run in Leopard

comment:18 Changed 15 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)

interesting... when built using lesstif instead of openmotif, xpdf fails with:

~/src/macports-trunk/dports/graphics/xpdf $ xpdf
Error: No paper information available - using defaults
Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats'
Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Warning: 
    Name: xpdf
    Class: XmDisplay
    Display.c:_XmGetDropSiteManagerObject(549) called without an XmDisplay

Bus error

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libXm.2.dylib                 	0x0026de58 XmDropSiteRegister + 88
1   libXm.2.dylib                 	0x002d3dac initialize + 844
2   libXt.6.dylib                 	0x0037e1e4 CallInitialize + 228
3   libXt.6.dylib                 	0x0037e894 xtCreate + 612
4   libXt.6.dylib                 	0x0037ee58 _XtCreateWidget + 696
5   libXt.6.dylib                 	0x0037ef14 XtCreateWidget + 164
6   libXm.2.dylib                 	0x002cc664 XmCreateTextField + 68
7   xpdf                          	0x00093210 XPDFViewer::initToolbar(_WidgetRec*) + 1104
8   xpdf                          	0x00098a6c XPDFViewer::initWindow(int) + 684
9   xpdf                          	0x000992d0 XPDFViewer::XPDFViewer(XPDFApp*, GString*, int, GString*, int, GString*, GString*) + 96
10  xpdf                          	0x0008c854 XPDFApp::open(GString*, int, GString*, GString*) + 84
11  xpdf                          	0x0009ca2c main + 2300
12  xpdf                          	0x000021d0 start + 64


comment:19 Changed 15 years ago by gahs@…

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comment:20 Changed 15 years ago by rob.kalescky@…

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comment:21 in reply to:  description Changed 15 years ago by cjdeloye@…

Replying to macosx12345@…:

I experienced the same problem on OS X 10.4.11 (both PPC and i386) trying to use xmgrace (port: grace) AFTER upgrading to macports v. 1.70 and doing a "port upgrade outdated".

The problem seems to come in from two name conflicts (_vendorShellWidgetClass, _vendorShellClassRec ) between libXm and the /opt/local/lib/libXt. My setup default is to use /usr/X11R6 not the /opt/local Xorg version of X11, so the linking against the Xorg libraries was unexpected. The linking error I get when doing a 'port -v build openmotif' is

/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _vendorShellWidgetClass
/opt/local/lib/libXm.dylib(VendorS.o) definition of _vendorShellWidgetClass
/opt/local/lib/libXt.dylib(Vendor.o) definition of _vendorShellWidgetClass
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _vendorShellClassRec
/opt/local/lib/libXm.dylib(VendorS.o) definition of _vendorShellClassRec
/opt/local/lib/libXt.dylib(Vendor.o) definition of _vendorShellClassRec

After experimenting, I could get openmotif to compile and successfully ran its demo binaries in /opt/local/share/Xm when forcing linking openmotif against the OS X system version of X11. The problem I was running into was that the default linker flag order appears to be '-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib', which drags in the macports Xorg libraries instead of the system X11 libs.

Thus, a temporary solution to this problem (albeit temporary and inelegant and which may not work on OS X 10.5 since the system X11 implementation is different) is to modify the openmotif Portfile to ensure that the /usr/X11R6/ branch is looked at before /opt/local by the compiler and linker. Applying the following patch to the Portfile (which also removes the Xorg dependencies from the openmotif port) accomplishes this and produced a working openmotif package for me.

To get xmgrace to work, similar changes to the configure.ldflags and configure.cppflags in the grace Portfile were made.

--- Portfile.org        2009-03-05 17:00:33.000000000 -0600
+++ Portfile    2009-03-05 17:06:29.000000000 -0600
@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@
        port:jpeg \
        port:libpng \
        port:libiconv \
-       port:xorg-libsm \
-       port:xorg-libXext \
-       port:Xft2 \
-       port:xorg-libXmu \
-       port:xorg-libXp \
-       port:xorg-libXt
 
 patchfiles      patch-demos-programs-peridoc-Makefile.in.diff \
                 patch-lib-Mrm-Makefile.in.diff
@@ -50,14 +44,14 @@
 
 # This block helps us link correctly and setup our pc files correctly when we are
 # +system_x11 and x11prefix is somewhere non-standard
-if { ![file exists ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc] && ![file exists ${x11prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc] } {
+#if { ![file exists ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc] && ![file exists ${x11prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc] } {
     # AC_X_PATH blindly asks xmkmf where X11 is, and it always uses /usr/X11R6.
     # These next three lines should cause AC_X_PATH to let us setup our CPPFLAGS
     # and LDFLAGS without interference
     configure.args-append --x-include=${prefix}/include --x-lib=${prefix}/lib
-    configure.cppflags-append -I${x11prefix}/include
-    configure.ldflags-append  -L${x11prefix}/lib
-}
+    configure.cppflags -I${x11prefix}/include -I${prefix}/include
+    configure.ldflags  -L${x11prefix}/lib -L${prefix}/lib
+#}
 
 configure.args  --mandir=${prefix}/share/man   \
                 --enable-xft   \

comment:22 Changed 15 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed in r47999 (it accidently snuck in with the xorg-server-devel push, sorry for any confusion there). Basically, we need a flat namespace for libXt to behave.

comment:23 in reply to:  22 Changed 15 years ago by someuser12

Replying to jeremyhu@…:

Fixed in r47999

Many thanks! It works for me = it allows to run xpdf and xdvi (and presumably xmgrace) just after upgrading xorg-libXt (no need to recompile the applications themselves).

comment:24 Changed 15 years ago by (none)

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