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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Package gripes?
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 12:54:35 -0700
Organization: Me
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Arthur D. Jerijian wrote:
] Is this the newsgroup where I should report gripes regarding the extra
] packages in FreeBSD 2.1.5? If so, then I would like to mention that
] the XEmacs-19.13 package requires Motif shared libraries. I know for
] a fact that Motif isn't required in order to build XEmacs.
If Motif is present on the build system, XEmacs will silently use
it for its dialogs. Further, it will use the shared version in
preference to the static version.
This is, in fact, the result of two errors in the XEmacs build
process:
1) It silently uses an optional (commercial) system
component. This is annoying, and really isn't in
line with the GNU philosphy the product purports
to follow.
2) It assumes that the system that it is being built on
is the system that it will be used on (shared library
default for the component). This is at odds with the
claims of the GPL that you are encouraged to distribute
binaries... this is a discouragement, I believe.
Since this was already reported before, a corrected package is
available from the ftp site; you should pull it down from there
(per the instructions on www.freebsd.org).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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