Re: What is /usr/dt/lib?
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 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.)
This is
Solaris 2.5+ I'm taking about. I didn't mean there were two
libxm's (there aren't). It is just that teh behavior of CDE differs
in small ways from standard Motif. Of course, Sun complicates things
further by uing openwin instead of standard X11!
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!)
On a system with many
software packages that can make lib very big.
david