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From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Troubles installing/running X Inside Motif development tools
Date: 27 Jun 1996 21:43:02 -0600
Organization: X Inside Inc.
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In-reply-to: Simon Harris's message of 28 Jun 1996 02:47:25 GMT
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In article <4qvh3t$b0e@perki0.connect.com.au> Simon Harris <simon@addease.com.au> writes:

>   Here is the message that I sent to X Inside about 5 days ago
>   but an yet to get a reply.

Maybe our support thought the question was kind of april 1th joke ;-)


>   I have just received your "accelerated X, MWM v1.1 for
>   BSDI BSD/OS" under FreeBSD 2.0.5.

BSD/OS uses a different format for shared libs as FreeBSD. Hence a
program linked against the BSD/OS shared libs will not run on
FreeBSD. Obviously all our programs we ship along with Motif are
dynamically linked to save memory. So you should have ordered the
Motif for FreeBSD, rather than BSD/OS.

- Thomas

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