Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Wed Mar 19 20:27:54 UTC 2008


I was in a similar situation recently, but had libXm.so.4 installed
instead of libXm.so.3. If you are in the same boat, you can install
the
i586 Linux distribution of Dislin which is compiled for libXm.so.4.
That's after you back out the variuos changes that broke the 37 libs.
HTH,
Dave

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Underwood wrote:
>
>  >>
>  > Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk, and
>  > people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame. It was
>  > moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. By the time
>  > they decided it was bad people had given up working on lesstif. Maybe it
>  > was all a big plot to kill off the motif world completely.
>
>  Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried to
>  clone it.  You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off.
>
>
>   > Whatever the
>  > cause, it now means using Grace, Nedit and a few other favourites is a
>  > right PITA with Fedora.
>
>  Yes, if Motif had been open, or lesstif had worked from the start, a lot
>  of things could be about a decade ahead of where they are now...
>
>  --
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>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
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