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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Motif for NetBSD / i386
Message-ID: <1995Nov4.131002.11911@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <5x2AiP8M7YB@tethys.ping.de> <1995Nov2.104520.19346@wavehh.hanse.de> <1995Nov3.171610.29660@ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 95 13:10:02 GMT
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azcb0@ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) writes:
>In article <1995Nov2.104520.19346@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
>>torsten@tethys.ping.de (Torsten Rissel) writes:
>>
>>>Has anyone heard about Motif for NetBSD running on PC's ?
>>
>>info@lasermoon.co.uk / info@acc-corp.com
>>
>>once sold one for NetBSD, but I've been told that their product
>>is not reliable.
>>
>>Note that you alway can buy sources and compile it yourself. More
>>expensive, but if your company relies on Motif, maybe an option, since
>>Source is neccecary for many common tasks in Motif anyway (ok, ok, I
>>won't broadcast my Motif opinions...).
>I too won't ask why anyone would want to use Motif, but I'm sure
>there's a good reason. I believe that you can get Motif for both
>Linux and FreeBSD, and so you could buy one of those versions of
>Motif, and use the binary emulation for either one.
>No, I've not tried it - Motif, that is. The binary emulation works
>well, in NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA.
Just one question: Can you use a FreeBSD library and link NetBSD
object files to it? I can't check it until monday, but my impression
was that ar(1) is quite different on NetBSD and FreeBSD.
And shared libraries are much less likely to work with the other's
object files.
It they don't, you have to have a whole FreeBSD developement
environment around on your NetBSD box to produce FreeBSD object files
and link them to FreeBSD libs. The result can run under the emulator,
which shouldn't have any performance penalities. Additionally, maybe
you have to make minor modifications to Motif include files.
OK, I'll have a look at it. Using FreeBSD static libs should work
or be easy to make work. Monday...
Martin
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