[Xastir] Xastir and Fedora Core 6

[Steve Friis]

Tate wrote:
> Jim Bradbury wrote:
>> I have been away from this list for about 6 months.
>> Forgive me if this has been addressed (probably has).
>>
>> I have Fedora Core 6 running on all my machines.
>> I downloaded the latest Xastir source today.
>> When I did the ./configure , I got the error
>>
>> NO MOTIF HEADERS FOUND
>>
>> When I went looking for OpenMotif I found that
>> it has been dropped from Fedora in FC6, and
>> if loaded may cause conflicts with the fedora
>> code.
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this?
>> Perhaps we can just load the motif libraries?
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>>
>> -= Jim - WB5ACL =-
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>
> Hey Jim,
>
> If you look at the HowTo section of the Documentation page on the 
> Xastir web site (http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora) 
> you'll find a link to: 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif. About section 4 of 
> the "RPM Stuff" section.
>
> There the Fedora Project explains why they've dropped Lesstif from 
> their distro and currently include OpenMotif instead.
>
> To sumarize:
> "Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list 1, openmotif 
> currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements 2. The 
> openmotif developers have been contacted 3, but it appears openmotif's 
> licensing will not be changing soon.
>
> The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from 
> Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006, 
> the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6."
>
> FWIW,
>
> 73
Hi from F-land

Load lesstiff and lesstiff-devel and all will be well.

See my notes on the WIKI.



Steve/WM5Z