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Re: Can you get Xm stubs?



On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:41:10PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> Trying to compile mosaic, I get problems because I don't have motif.
> Despite setting the make options to tell it that (a) I don't have
> Motif and (b) I want to build without Motif, it still looks for Xm.h
> and moans when it can't find it. And it still wants the definitions
> from Xm.h, so I can't fudge it with a null file.
> 
> I get the same sort of problem trying to compile mozilla - my slink
> version runs, but keeps throwing up various X errors, probably because
> it wasn't compiled with X 4.2, so I want to recompile it.
> 
> The obvious solution is to install Motif, but (a) I don't really want
> it and (b) it's a bitch to configure the compilation, partly because
> it's awkwardly laid out and partly because the docs on how to do this
> are inconsistent.
> 
> Is there a package which I can build that will give me a set of stubs
> to satisfy this? 

Not really what you want, but lesstif is a Free (LGPL) reimplementation
of Motif 1.0 (I think...) that seems to work fairly well now.  Even if
it does cause runtime problems, it's headers should be enough to bulid
mosaic with.

-rob

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