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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
- Message-ID: <15888@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:55:28 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >PS - ANOTHER big reason to do this is that LOTS of PD X software WILL NOT
- >run under OW2/3. WHY? For some reason Sun is distributing an incompatible
- >version of libXt - THIS REALLY SUCKS!
-
- Err, incompatible with what?
-
- The OW 2.0 "-lXt" is, modulo some SCCS IDs, the "-lXt" from X11R4, but
- not at its final patch level. Unfortunately, one of the missing patches
- is the one where the MIT folks finally fixed the version number for
- "-lXt", so if you have a bunch of widgets built with a patch level 18
- X11R4, and use them with the OW 2.0 "-lXt", you'll get a bunch of whining
- about version numbers. There may be other ways in which
- publicly-available X software depends on having "-lXt" up to patch level
- 18, so that may not work under OW 2.0.
-
- As far as I know, the OW 3.0 "-lXt" is just the patch level 18 X11R4
- "-lXt". It's not the X11R5 "-lXt", so anything dependent on the X11R5
- "-lXt" may not work.
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