Reflections on Athena Configuration
Last night I compiled 21.2 from the latest CVS sources to check out
Daniel Pittman's new athena configuration stuff. Here's what I found
along the way.
1. Even though I had been successfully building with Xaw3d, I hadn't
installed the 3d headers. If I understand the emails which had
been passing back and forth, this was a good recipe for a crash.
The new configuration code warned me about this and defaulted to
plain old athena. Good job, Daniel.
2. Next I installed the neXtaw library (into the default location
generated by xmkmf) and the header files ended up in
/usr/X11R6/include/neXtaw. (This is a Mandrake 6.1 system, BTW).
The new configuration code could not find the headers in this spot,
so I added a symlink from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/neXtaw to
/usr/X11R6/include/neXtaw; this made the neXtaw configuration work
fine. Daniel, I don't know if you want to support
/usr/X11R6/include/neXtaw, it seems like a good idea to me, but you
have a much better idea than I do.
3. (Off topic) OK, now I have this XEmacs with this spiffier scrollbar
- is it possible to get this to scroll by more than one line? This
seems like the most feeble (and slowest) scrollbar I've ever used;
why would I want it?
Anyway, that's what I found. Nice work, Daniel.
- vin