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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!pacbell.com!ames!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cs.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu (David A. Bader) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Porting software for Motif/FreeBSD 2.1.6-R Date: 24 Jan 1997 09:16:13 -0500 Organization: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), Univ of Maryland, College Park Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5cag7d$brq@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eve.umiacs.umd.edu NNTP-Posting-User: dbader Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34474 Hi, I'm trying to port I software package (not from FreeBSD ports) which requires the Motif library (libXm.a). Reading section 18.2.5.5 of the FreeBSD handbook, I see that: There are many programs that require a Motif library (available from several commercial vendors, while there is (at least) one effort to create a free clone) to compile. Since it is a popular toolkit and their licenses usually permit redistribution of statically linked binaries, we have made special provisions for handling ports that require Motif in a way that we can easily compile binaries linked either dynamically or statically. Is there a free version of libXm.a (static Motif library) for FreeBSD? Thanks, david David A. Bader, Ph.D. Office: 301-405-6755 Institute for Advanced Computer Studies FAX: 301-314-9658 A.V. Williams Building Internet: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu University of Maryland WWW: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~dbader College Park, MD 20742