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From: dweaver@clover.cleaf.com (David Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: XView 3.2, building
Date: 6 Aug 1995 17:06:55 GMT
Organization: Cloverleaf Technologies
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Sender: dweaver@nondum.cleaf.com (David Weaver)
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Keywords: XView OPEN LOOK

Has anyone managed to successfully build a working version of the XView OPEN
LOOK libraries on NetBSD/i386 1.0?

I got XView 3.2 out of /contrib on ftp.x.org, and found it difficult to
compile.  There were many errors in the Makefiles, most typically spaces
instead of tabs before shell commands.  Another serious error was a couple of
functions which called _doprnt and _doscan, and messed around with the
internals of the FILE type.  Yet another error was caused by lack of the
tsearch() family of functions in libc.

But I managed to get through all that and actually got it compiled.  Most of
the demo programs worked beautifully.  I say 'most' because any XView program
which catches the MENU button (mouse button 3) dumped core when I pressed the
MENU button.  Everything else worked fine.

So, has anyone else tried to build XView (any version)?