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X11IRAF on Red Hat 5.0 systems

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 06, 1998


> I am running RedHat 5.0 on an Intel 586.
> I have downloaded and unpacked the redhat binaries for iraf and
> the general sources.  iraf/cl seem to work ok.
> 
> But I can't get either xgterm or ximtool to work, both crash with a
> "Segmentation fault" error.  I've checked that both binaries are, indeed
> ELF binaries (I didn't download the wrong tar file).

        Red Hat 5.0 uses a new version of the C library so you'll need a
new version of X11IRAF that uses this.  You can get this from /iraf/x11iraf
as x11iraf-v1.1-linux-glibc-bin.tar.gz.  Try these binaries instead and
let me know if you still have problems.

Cheers,
-Mike

Last post on Feb 06, 1998