On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Jon Trulson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Jon Trulson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I propose that I take those header from the LGPL motif I have, add the
>>>> appropriate license headers, and put them in imports/motif/include/
>>>
>>> You are right - I included them to push my change out fast (I dislike
>> [...]
>>
>> I would only want to include those that we actually use... The
>> normally exported headers will already be usable as-is without any
>> changes as long as the openmotif devkit is installed.
>>
>> However, while adding the ones mentioned in your patches, I came
>> across XmStrDefsI.h.  This one is a problem, since it is automatically
>> generated during a motif build.  And if you look at the contents, it
>> could be different for any given build, so a way must be found to avoid
>> this one.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Looking at the trouble involved and the fact we just need some externs
> what about producing a special file (maybe automatically
> generated from Motif headers on request) with all the extern declarations
> needed?
>
> I don't think we need any complex type declarations or macros.
> And this way we can kind of avoid copyright issues (not that
> I personally believe that a list of externs can be subjected
> to copyright but that's another matter).
>

If you know what these are, I can't see how this would be a licensing
problem at all.  I think this might be a better way to go, thereby
avoiding these internal motif headerfile issues.

I don't think there is any need to autogen them, just stick them in a
file (or the c files that actually need them :)


-- 
Jon Trulson

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