On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Erik B. Andersen wrote: > The reason we need virtual packages is so that we can allow people who > (like myself) have gone out and bought real Motif to use it on Debian. > I would be glad to throw away my Motif CD, and only use Lesstif. Last > time I tried compiling Nedit against lesstif, the results were almost > usable, but still disappointing. I am getting a new computer (K6-200) > to replace my old 486, and I plan on compiling Nedit against the latest > Lesstif again. If it works, i will upload it (and we can get it out of > contrib). I still plan on compiling a statically linked version against > REAL Motif though (for those who want everything to work perfectly). > I don't believe Lesstif is quite ready for primetime. Regardless, since > there are two versions of Motif, with different Library names that are > not compatable (sure, you can recompile but they are not binary compatable), > we need both motif12 and motif20 virtual packages. Lesstif should be > modified to provide motif12. For other people that have commercial Motif, > we need to have TWO motif dummy packages. Or one that provides both > virtual packages...
This is exactly what Dirk and I were talking about, but I am unclear about one thing. I realise motif20 stuff won't run with motif12 stuff but will a binary that is dynamically compiled against lesstif run if only Motif 1.2 is installed? In other words, I still see the use of having virtual motif12 and motif20 packages for any of the dmotif programs, but can lesstif use the motif12 vitual package also? I assume that it should, but I don't know for sure. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at <URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .