From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 06:30:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA04119 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 06:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net [203.108.7.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA04109 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 06:30:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA05045; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:30:41 +1100 (EST) Received: from rlyon.mynet.au (slmel9p41.ozemail.com.au [203.7.187.57]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA08651; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:30:38 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:17:08 +1100 (EST) From: Richard Lyon X-Sender: rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au To: Dave Bodenstab cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net access to motif? Is this a goofy idea or what? In-Reply-To: <199612040026.SAA12232@base486.synet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > > I noticed that someone else brought up the question of linking motif > applications without having to buy motif... Unfortunately, lesstif is > not yet near enough to completion. I am not really interested as a > developer in using motif -- I just want to link various public software > packages to create static binaries -- so it's not worth the money (at least > for now) to buy the libraries. But I, too, would like to link using the > motif libraries. Let me float this idea... > Version 0.71 of lesstif was released a few days. My first attempt at compiling Xinvest worked, but with a few warnings. I am currently testing it. So far one core dump and quite a few diagnostic warnings (widget problems), but it does sort of run. Sure looks pretty. Lesstif is getting there, maybe in another 6 months .... The linux binaries are available. You could try running these. Then if you really like something maybe the cost of swim motif will be more acceptable. I don't think you can distibute motif in the fashion you propose without severely violating the vendors license. Regards Richard ...