I searched the net and found this: http://www.perchine.com/dyp/x/motif-faq/part9/faq-doc-24.html
To quote it: >269) Why do I get "Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent"? > >[Last modified: May 95] > >Answer: You're linking your libraries in the wrong order. You must link -lXm >*before* -lXt. > >Thanks to Ken Lee, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Ken Sall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) adds: This same error occurs if you combine Motif and >Athena widgets in the same application. If you link with "-lXaw" before "- >lXm", you get the runtime error. However, if you switch the order of the two >libraries, there is no problem. For example: > > cc mothena.c -o mothena -lXm -lXaw -lXt -lXmu -lX11 > In retrospect, I seem to remember something like this happened before. I am not yet sure what exactly we have to do to fix this: i.e. whether change lesstif, XFree, or the affected packages. But at least now we've got a pointer. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel