On 22-Jan-2001 Xucaen wrote: > hi all. > has anyone ever installed either of the following > debian packages? > > stable 100% xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1 (1166.5k) > A personal finance tracking program. > stable 75% xacc 1.0.18-4 (344.4k) > A personal finance tracking program. > > I was wondering what the difference between them > is (besides their version numbers ;-). > The xacc-smotif description says it is "linked > statically with Motif. It may be more stable than > the Lesstif based version" > what does it mean to be statically linked to > Motif? What is Motif? What is Lesstif? >
Motif is an old UNIX standard GUI library. It is closed source and you have to spend money to own it. Lesstif is a free recreation of this library based on the publicly available API. (less is more). To be 'statically' compiled means the libraries the program needs are compiled into the program. This way you do not need a copy of Motif.
