Courtesy binaries and RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)

Posted by chris Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:54:46 GMT

RHEL5 is out and Göran recently passed this heads-up warning to the developers mailing list:

It might be worth mentioning that this won’t work any more for people using the i386 variant of RHEL5. The pre-compiled i386 qmon uses libXm.so.2 (Openmotif 2.1) which is no longer available in RHEL5.

It is not a problem for x86_64 RHEL5. The pre-compiled x86_64 qmon uses libXm.so.3 (Openmotif 2.2) which is still available in RHEL5 as a compatibility package. (Openmotif 2.3 is the default.)

For i386 arch users of RHEL it looks like getting the ‘qmon’ GUI to work may require building from source or installing a third-party OpenMotif 2.1 compatible RPM.