openmotif gone in FC6, due to licensing issue.
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 30 22:02:51 UTC 2006
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Wallace Owen wrote:
> Hi, folks.
>
> I updated my so/ho machine from FC3 to FC6 this week. Looks pretty,
> and as easy to get used to as an old slipper.
>
> But I have to support software that uses the Motif widget set, and
> discovered that because of licensing issues Red Hat is no longer
> distributing openmotif with Fedora.
>
> So I got the source tarball from OSF, and tried to install it. No
> good. openmotif can not be built on FC6 because it needs but can't
> find /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h and libXp.so, which are no
> longer provided by RedHat.
>
> Does anyone know:
>
> 1) why libXp was removed (some other license issue?)?
>
> 2) how to get it back (what X SRPM do I need to build, and what do
> I need to change in it's build script to re-enable creation of
> libXp)?
libXp is still available. what i'm particularly interested in is that
the oracle installation instructions for FC6 *explicitly* state that
openmotif is required. is lesstif adequate for oracle?
rday
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