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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Motif 2.0 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
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>>> Terry Lambert said:
 > >>>     Does anyone know from whom you can buy Motif 2.0 libs and includes
 > >>> built against R6 for FreeBSD?  Thanks...
 > > 
 > >> I don't know if you can get Motif 2.0 built against R6, period.  As far
 > >> as I know, it still requires R5.
 > > 
 > > 	Does that mean I'd have to have R5 and R6 online to use it?
 > 
 > I think the libraries should be binary compatible; it's building the
 > Motif itself that relies on the X11R5isms... ie: Xt and Xext.
 > 
 > I suspect it would work, but it might still require the old locale
 > stuff (ala NetScape), etc.
 > 
 > I haven't found any manifest constants that have changed (some structure
 > exposures have, like GC, but that was mostly code that you were suppose
 > to deprecate but I didn't since R4).  Doesn't mean there aren't any,
 > though.
 > 
 > I haven't seen a Motif built against R6 headers, though.
 > 

Well, I am not sure that this is applicable but on my previous contract
I compiled Motif 1.1 for X11R6 and it was not too bad.

Amancio