From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg) Subject: Re: Xview3L4 update? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 11:33:11 GMT
broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bill Broadley) writes:
>Is there an update to the xview3l4 package from tsx and sunsite?? I really
>like the package and the demos, documentation etc. Sun has had a newer
>release but It's not ported to linux as far as I know. Anyone working on it?
>Can I help? Want to work on it as a project?
>I tried to install it and it worked well but I couldn't compile any of the
>UIT examples. (Yes OPENWINHOME was set)
...
>This isn't the only case it seems EVERY makefile is broken, and some
>of them are machine generated which complicates fixing them.
You are right, the makefiles in the examples are a mess. This is because
I did not bother to rewrite them completely, but instead hacked them until
they worked on my machine. Those makefiles are pretty specific for suns
version of make/cc. Why they didn't use Imakefiles in UIT is beyond me
(sigh).