On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Lev via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
As a followup, the xterm author maintains his own autoconf forks at
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/. They don’t hang on my system like the
newer ones shipped by m4 and nano.
Also, I tried iffe and it works like a charm even on the V
On 1/19/21 9:52 PM, Lev via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I intend on porting CDE/Motif 2.1 to SVR4 and possibly other niche platforms,
> so I’ve set up a branch at https://github.com/lev105/cde-imake/ so as to not
> interfere with the good work here to get CDE up to date with the autotoo
As a followup, the xterm author maintains his own autoconf forks at
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/. They don’t hang on my system like the
newer ones shipped by m4 and nano.
Also, I tried iffe and it works like a charm even on the V7 Bourne shell. The
feature tests are also much nicer to
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Lev,
I just don't understand what the big issue with autotools is. We gutted a lot
of the legacy OS code a few years ago (ultrix, unixware, even weird ones like
uxpds), but if someone were to want these platforms back, I feel that using
Hi Chase,
It’s not that the autotools suite is bad per se, but my opinion is that they’re
somewhat GNU-centric. For instance, trying to get it working on UnixWare (which
still gets patches from Xinuos, and I wonder if they’d give a free license for
CDE developers), it immediately errors out bec
Lev,
I just don't understand what the big issue with autotools is. We gutted a lot
of the legacy OS code a few years ago (ultrix, unixware, even weird ones like
uxpds), but if someone were to want these platforms back, I feel that using
autotools would be an even better solution, since autotools
Hello,
I intend on porting CDE/Motif 2.1 to SVR4 and possibly other niche platforms,
so I’ve set up a branch at https://github.com/lev105/cde-imake/ so as to not
interfere with the good work here to get CDE up to date with the autotools
suite, etc.
Without being able to test on a SVID3-complia
