openmotif gone in FC6, due to licensing issue.

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 12/30/06, Wallace Owen <owen at metamachine.com> 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)?
>
>
>   // Wally
>

It wasn't removed:

chitlesh(~)[0]$rpm -qf /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h
libXp-devel-1.0.0-8
chitlesh(~)[0]$locate libXp.so
/usr/lib/libXp.so
/usr/lib/libXp.so.6
/usr/lib/libXp.so.6.2.0
chitlesh(~)[0]$rpm -qf /usr/lib/libXp.so
libXp-devel-1.0.0-8

Chitlesh
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