Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <[🔎] 199608131743.TAA09788@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Thomas Koenig writes:
>The problem is that Maple looks for these things under /usr/X386,
>as verified with strace.
>
>Solution: cd /usr ; ln -s X11R6 X386

Real Solution:  Complain to your vendor about the use of inappropriate
paths.

Installing a link to /usr/X386 is inappropriate, and has been shown to
cause problems with man and other stuff.

Alternately, one might look into patching the binary, as the netscape
package does.

Mike.
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