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- From: ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu (John S. O'Conner)
- Subject: Re: X Windows on 9000/710
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Utah
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 01:49:01 GMT
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- In article <17780237@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
- >>[FREE HINT to HP: You are really annoying your customers and developing
- >> a horrid reputation with customers for not including ALL of the
- >> freely distributable X11 libraries, headers, and build utilities
- >> -- like Imake. I tell everyone I see about my experience with HP. ]
- >
- >I don't want to get into a shouting match about what should or shouldn't
- >be distributed. However, it should be no surprise to developers that
- >this stuff isn't there. Here's a quote from the Xmu README file:
- >
- >+ This library contains miscellaneous utilities and is not part of the Xlib
- >+ standard. It contains routines which only use public interfaces so that it
- >+ may be layered on top of any proprietary implementation of Xlib or Xt.
- >+
- >+ It is intended to support clients in the MIT distribution; vendors
- >+ may choose not to distribute this library if they wish. Therefore,
- >+ applications developers who depend on this library should be prepared to
- >+ treat it as part of their software base when porting.
- >
- > -- Chan Benson
- > HP Fort Collins
-
-
- Perhaps you have a point, but my ORIGINAL complaint was...still is...that
- header files that were supposed to come with my system are NOT there.
- Specifically, my 710s have come preconfigured with X and Motif. I have
- the standard /usr/lib/Motif1.1 directory and the proper libraries, but
- there's no /usr/include/Motif1.1 to be found. You know...all those
- Xm/*.h files. They just are NOT on my system and they should be. Before
- someone comments that I just haven't looked in the right directory, I want you
- to know that I've really scoured the entire system. Nevertheless, I'm
- still open to suggestions about the problem.
-
- Regards,
- John
- ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu
-