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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!rde!gator!syscon!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!pacbell.com!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!kwan From: kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) Subject: Re: Motif1.1.3 prob. on FreeX86... Message-ID: <q78nql#.kwan@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 01:15:21 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <yx8n2#_.kwan@netcom.com> <JTSILLA.92Sep23170623@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <1992Sep23.225222.14308@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Lines: 36 In article <1992Sep23.225222.14308@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes: >In article <JTSILLA.92Sep23170623@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) writes: >> >>Are you running Motif on 386BSD? I assume you've done the port yourself. >>People have had success using Motif with XFree86 on SVR4. I haven't >>tried it on SVR3 (lacking the libraries). I would be strongly suspect of >>a port of Motif to 386BSD considering the problems one finds when >>porting it to SunOS. >> > >And what problems would those be? I had more trouble "porting" Motif to >ESIX SysVR4 than I did with SunOS or Ultrix. > >Ultrix is a reference OS for Motif, Ultrix and SunOS are both BSD based. >Motif built "right out of the box" on both SunOS and Ultrix for me. Perhaps >you're thinking of "shared libraries". Even those aren't hard on SVR4 or >SunOS. > >I wouldn't expect to have problems building Motif on 386BSD either, I just >haven't had the opportunity yet... My new ET4000 doesn't like my 640x400 >monochrome monitor. Anyone wanna donate a 19" Triniton monitor to a worthy >cause? :-) > >-- > >Kaleb Keithley kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov > >Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone. It took me about ~4days+nites to port the damn thing to 386bsd. It's not so much of FreeX, is the 386bsd. There're zillion of header files that's missing under /usr/include and /usr/include/sys, mostly under sys. I've to retrofit those files from SunOS. Got the ports finally, I would say it's pre-alpha quality. Lot of things works, lot's more don't. I suspect is the incompatibility bet. motif1.1.3 and X11R5. Maybe I should wait for motif1.2 Kwan