Re: Motif & Irix
>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Galibert
<galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
Olivier> On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 01:26:55AM -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> The things that COULD be motif are
>
> --with-menubars
> --with-scrollbars
> --with-dialogs
> --with-xim
>
> Of those, the only ones that DEFAULT to being motif (where available)
> are --with-xim and --with-dialogs.
>
> So `--with-dialogs=athena --with-xim=no' is one combination that
> should disable use of Motif. Let me know if this is not the case.
Olivier> It is. I was afraid of tooltalk in particular. I'll try to include it
Olivier> in a non-motif configure to see.
My previous list was incomplete. CDE is built on top of Motif, so
--with-cde naturally requires motif.
Tooltalk is packaged as part of CDE, so the natural comination is CDE
+ tooltalk + Motif. It is interesting to try to build --with-tooltalk, but
without Motif. This might work, since libtt.so has no direct
dependency on libXm.so.
Olivier> But I think you missed my point. I'd like to see motif NOT being
Olivier> default on irix, even if available. While still having the possibility
Olivier> to ask for it explicitely (i.e. no forced removal in s/* files).
Olivier> Is that possible ?
> I understand many would like to never use motif. We may add an
option
> like that later, but don't we already have too many configure options?
Olivier> That may or may not being interesting, but isn't what I'm looking
for.
Olivier> I'd just like to avoid by default a library that is often (but not
always,
Olivier> and no way that I know of to check at compile time) buggy.
We currently have a check for lesstif. Should we also have a check
for Irix, and avoid using Motif there?
It's getting late in the 21.0 cycle, but.... Olivier, if you think
Motif should be disabled on Irix for 21.0, then you should make it so.
You will have to take responsibility for the patch to configure.in.
Martin