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- From: aardvark@nt1l.krl.com (Donald Koch)
- Subject: Re: Compile X11 under Solaris 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.163108@nt1l.krl.com>
- Sender: aardvark@nt1l (Donald Koch)
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- Organization: Koch Research Labs
- References: <9209031847.AA02731@mtesol> <1992Sep3.235234@nt1l.krl.com> <1992Sep7.115001.20556@cas.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:31:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.115001.20556@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- [ Question about why Sun owners would want to build X under Solaris and my
- reply about missing stuff. ]
-
- > 1. imake and xmkmf comes with OpenWindows 3.0 at least.
- > 2. The xterm that is there is the std X11R4 xterm as far as I can tell. It
- > isn't an OpenLook one at least - unfortunately.
- > 3. The Athena widget libraries, extentions, etc. are all there. As for
- > 'missing' stuff, I cannot imagine what of any major importance is missing,
- > from the core X11 R4 tapes. Twm is even there!
-
- This is interesting. I'll first explain that I have not used OpenWindows on
- a Sun. I have had people claim that they could not find xmkmf among other
- things. Either I was misled (nothing new here :), they were confused or Sun
- has recitified the situation. I can believe the server runs faster (due to
- less baggage).
-
- Thanks for the clarification, folks.
-
- --
- Don Koch
- aardvark@nt1l.krl.com
-