N.B. The attached patch is for example purposes only. DO NOT APPLY TO MASTER.
The build process for CDE involves building motif from source. Unfortunately, installing this motif into /usr conflicts with system packages on many systems, causing package manager indigestion and breaking legacy motif applications. This is not a problem if your system does not ship or depend on a legacy motif version, but if it does, you're in trouble. This does not strike me as a problem unique to me. Here's how I've been dealing with it: * install motif to /opt/motif * symlink imports/x11/include/Xm -> /opt/motif/include/Xm * edit config/sun.cf to link against this, as shown in the attached patch. My questions are: 1) Have any others found themselves in this situation, and how have they dealt with it? 2) Assuming my approach is reasonable, it seems to me there should be one make variable, MOTIF_PREFIX or somesuch, that can be set once in one file or on the command line. Is there precedent in the CDE project for this sort of functionality that I can examine, or should I just do what seems reasonable here? -- Matthew R. Trower ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
