Re: What is /usr/dt/lib?
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman(a)es.net> writes:
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: David Bush <dbush(a)adn.alcatel.com>
> Sender: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
>
> You are drawing a fine distinction. If you have CDE you do not separately
> ave Motif. The Motif libraries and header files are truely part of CDE.
> The libXm that comes with CDE provides Motif support, but is not exactly
> the same as teh corrersponding real Motif library.
If your OS does this, it's a true abomination! (I like that word.)
There is no reason for ANY difference between the CDE libXm and the
Motif libXm and in many operating systems the /usr/dt/lib/libXm entry
is just a link to the /usr/lib entry. In Digital UNIX, they don't even
do that. (I personally believe that this is the correct way to do it
as ld should always find the /usr/lib stuff, regardless!)
Actually, CDE uses a (newer) version of Motif that was not available
without CDE (basically 1.2.6), and added several new widgets that got
incorporated into Motif 2.x. So both of you are right: CDE's libXm is
different, but fully backwards compatable, and if CDE's Motif exists,
it is usually (but not always!) hard or soft linked to /usr/X11/lib
(or wherever). The randomness of the main lib dirs was one of the
reasons for creating /usr/dt from what I can gather.
--
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