From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 2 00:36:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19738 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19733 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 12399 on Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:21:03 +0200; id JAA12399 efrom: marc@nietzsche.bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA17742; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:07:38 +0200 Message-Id: <199609020707.JAA17742@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: lscolby@ibm.net (L. S. Colby), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: itcl and star office In-reply-to: j's message of Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:50:25 +0200. <199608310550.HAA07010@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 09:07:35 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As L. S. Colby wrote: > > > Star office has been ported to linux as an elf exe requiring motif > > runtimes or perhaps lestiff. > > Are there any plans to approach the developers of this product and > > request a Free BSD version? > > I doubt they will do it, though it's perhaps less work than they would > expect. The Linux port itself was a huge amount of work for them, and > it basically started out as an inofficial project of some of their > team members who happen to run Linux at home. It became officialized > only very late in the game. > As I understood from a comp.os.linux.* newsgroup you don't need the motif runtime, you just need to symlink one the supplied shared libraries (supplied by star that is) to the appropriate motif library and it should work. I think I saw this on comp.os.linux.development.apps. Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------