Re: openmotif and libXp.a (xemacs-21.2)
>>>> "Darryl" == Darryl Okahata
<darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com> writes:
Darryl> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> If the BSD linker is so stupid that it is impossible to use -lXm
> without also specifying -lXp, then BSD as a whole is horribly broken.
Darryl> It's been a long time, and my memory pretty fuzzy, but I think
Darryl> FreeBSD 3.X (an old version, which Kasahara-san is using) acted this
Darryl> way. Newer versions of FreeBSD (4.X and later) don't act this way, and
Darryl> "act correctly".
Darryl> However, what do you expect people to do if they want to link Motif
Darryl> statically, which older version of XEmacs does support? Are we going to
Darryl> take away this ability?
I'm still not convinced that this isn't a build problem with OpenMotif
on this particular platform. Since the beginning of time people have
built Motif applications using -lXm -lXt -lX11, and they shouldn't
have to start adding an extra library for an extension they don't use.
So my position remains that the XEmacs maintainers will do nothing for
this problem (except finger-point).
Martin