On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Keith Kaiser wrote:
On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote:
Keith Kaiser wrote:
So I've been told. I loaded both LessTif and the older version
of OpenMotif but because I don't know how to get rid of the
older version of OpenMotif, how to delete it completely in other
words, I've not been able to make Xastir use the newer version.
I think you do it like this;
./configure --without-motif --with-lesstif
This works for packages where they install using different filenames
or into different directories, but in the case of OpenMotif/Lesstif:
They install into the same areas using the same filenames. One is a
direct replacement for the other.
In my opinion OpenMotif is the better package, but only if it's easy
for you to upgrade/downgrade it to a version that doesn't have the
bug. 2.3.0 has the particular bug. Earlier/later versions do not.
I'm running 2.3.1 here and it's working fine (OpenSUSE-11.0 Linux).
Lesstif exhibits other bugs, usually much less visible ones.
Lesstif is an open-source replacement for OpenMotif and does a good
job but isn't quite as "polished" as Motif.
So: If you can easily upgrade/downgrade Motif, try that. If not,
try getting rid of it and installing Lesstif. You'll need both the
libraries and the development headers for the same version.
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Thanks Curt,
I guess I'm going to have to wait for Apple to update OpenMotif
internally because no matter what I do, Xastir compiles with v2.3.0.
I downloaded v2.3.1 of OpenMotif, compiled and installed it. Then I
did the ./configure for Xastir using a --with-openmotif-2.3.1 and
it still came up with version 2.3.0.
Go figure!
I admit however that may lack of Unix/Linix knowledge is mammoth
and is most likely the real reason I can't get it to work.
I don't think Apple even provides OpenMotif. How did you install it
in the first place? If you installed it with fink or macports, you
can use those tools to remove it.
Macports only has version 2.3.0 available so I did:
port uninstall openmotif
port install lesstif
I updated to xastir-1.9.4 and it compiled and runs without any issues.
Bob, N7XY
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