Re: Motif v lesstif - was Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 ...
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Glen Carreras wrote:
> David B. Teague wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> >
> > > > >>Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
> > > > >>for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
> > > >
> > > > >Works with lesstif too? ;)
> > > >
> > > > I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
> > > > steps would one need to take to get this working?
> > >
> > > What do you mean? Making Lesstif and Motif binary compatible?
> > > You must have OSF source for that :)
> > >
> > > Alex Y.
> >
> > If one has the library call interface and specifications, it seems to me
> > that it should be possible to write a library that is functionally
> > identical to Motif. If this is not true, I'd like for someone to explain
> > to me why.
> >
> > --David
>
> Well I tried a little experiement and made a link from lestiff to
> libXm.so.1.2 and two things happend:
>
> 1. The libnullplugin now loads (although I don't really know if it's
> operational or not)
> 2. netscape-dynmotif crashed and burned.
>
> I'm not even sure what the libnullplugin does exactly. From what I can
> tell it has something to do with plugin updates and such?
It will enable you to go to netscape repository of plugin information,
when you come across a page that requires a plugin that you don't have.
Shaya
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