[Xastir] OpenMotif

Chuck Byam cbyam at virginia.edu
Tue Feb 25 09:10:18 EST 2003


On Monday 24 February 2003 07:37 pm, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
| On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Tom Robson wrote:
| > Just tried to load the new 1.1.4 (not the cvs) on a computer with
| > Slackware 8.1  kernel 2.4.18
| > The configure complained about not finding Motif.  I had to delete
| > Lesstif previously  and install Motif because of font problems. The
| > previous configures worked fine with Motif.
| > The Slackware install put the files in /usr/X11R6/.......
|
| That means that the directory that it was put in is not classified
| as a system directory on Slackware 8.1.  Interesting.  I could add
| another path in the configure.ac file, but that won't help you
| unless you have automake 1.6.3+ and autoconf 1.53+ on that machine
| in order to run the bootstrap.sh script.
|
| Jack is in the middle of re-working configure.ac to better support
| all of these different directories that the various OS'es call out,
| but I could do a quick hack to support you.

This is a fairly common place to find the X11 libs etc.  There is probably a 
symlink in /usr/lib and /usr/include that points back to /usr/X11R6.  
./configure should be able to handle these without problem.  I'd look 
elsewhere for your problem.

Chuck



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