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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!hp-cv!hp-pcd!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!fub46!gusw From: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Shadow) Subject: Mosaic doesn't compile w/o Motif :-( any way out? Message-ID: <NA7PBDPT@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 22:34:45 GMT Lines: 29 Hi all, Motif turns out to be a major cause of inhibition of free software interchange! What the hell is so good about motif, that it is used by so many applications like Mosaic? Today I wanted to make Mosaic on my FreeBSD system running free software only. But Mosaic seems to need Motif to compile, I'm really angry about that fact. Now who knows of any possibility to get Mosaic run without having to by Motif? Why can't the free xview be used as well, if the standard X libraries are not enough? In the meantime, until this is worked out, is there any good soul, that would make available Mosaic in binary form, or better would make available a pre liked binary, that contains the necessary motif code, such that I can link the rest of Mosaic with this binary? I guess, that this should be possible with the libXmx.a. This would save us from having trouble with different versions of shared libraries of libc.so or libX.so etc. Thanks for your help -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow_________________________Hopfenweg 19, Berlin 12357, FR. Germany Dept. of Anaesthesia and Operative Intensive Care Medicine/ Dept. of Medical Informatics at the |gusw@boskop.uks.fu-berlin.de Universitaetsklinikum Steglitz, Berlin, FRG. |gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de