Hi Linas,
> I got tired of all those complaints about XmeDrawShadows & and gnucash
> this & that, and decided to take the bull by the horns. And hit a wall;
> I need your help. Here's some background:
>
> 1) instaled the latest lesstiff RPM i could find, 0.87.1 (I'd previously
> used a commercial Motif, but this was old, buggy, and broken
> by glibc-2.1.1)
>
> 2) The XmHTML binary I had installed had the infamous
> XmeDrawShadows problem.
> So I try to hunt down a newer RPM for XmHTML. Well ...
> nothing on rufus.w3.org
> Wow! How can that be? Its a major major site! Next, look at
> ftp://ftp.ultra.net/pub/eugene/RPMS/i386/ where the last one
> was ... its gone!
> The gnucash README gives this as a reference ... bummer!
Explainable: I never built RPM's our distributed compiled versions, I only
distribute the sources. What people do with that, I don't know. I've never
received any questions/information about the use of XmHTML in any Linux/BSD
distributions for that matter.
> 3) No problem, sez I, I will download & compile xmHTML-1.1.7
> myself. Whoops.
> NFW. xmkmf generates garbage, since the Imakefiles look for a
> "src" directory,
> which no longer exists. (its now lib/common, lib/motif, etc).
> So we'll use
> configure, say's I ... well, no configure but there is a
> 'configure.in', so
> I 'autoconf' using the lateest autoconf ... bzzt no config.sub
> So 'automake',
> automake: configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
> automake: configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
1.1.7 can only be compiled with the provided makefiles, it was supposed to
be an intermediate release since it contained important fixes with respect
to the tables. Only problem is that until now I didn't find the time to wrap
up 1.1.8. I've got tons of patches for 1.1.8, including ones for Imake, (a
working) configure and text selection routines. 1.1.8 will take me two or
three weeks.
The only way to build XmHTML without the Xme problems is to compile XmHTML
using a 1.2.X Motif or a LessTif without the Motif 2.0 compatibility. All
Motif 2.X libraries still have the _Xm functions available for backwards
compatibility, so this should work. On Linux this should be fairly easy with
using the provided makefiles. Other platforms might be more difficult.
I'll let you know when 1.1.8 is out.
Cheers,
Koen.
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