Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 15:05:15 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca> Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <199806091305.PAA10796@nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: timp's message of Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:20:57 -0000. <357D28A9.C3435D07@orion.ab.ca>
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> John Birrell wrote: > > > Tom Brown wrote: > > > Just as soon as I find out where I can get a copy of Motif that doesn't cost > > > $1200 or get the correct lib's. > > > > US$149 from www.xig.com > > Hmmm I purchased this Motif 2.0 from XIG some time ago when FreeBSD release level > was at 2.1.7. As soon as I upgraded to 2.2 (and the corresponding XFree86 > release) it broke Motif. Things would still build but would very often dump core. > XIG's solution was to use the XFree release from 2.1.7 and if I needed the newer > video drivers from the newer releases to just use the newer releases server, and > the old releases libs. I had Motif running for about 30 days before it did not > get installed again on any of my machines.. > > They aren't even answering my email anymore about a newer version of Motif. > > Has anyone else had similar experiences? > That's ridiculous, I compiled motif 1.2 from source for FreeBSD 2.0, and it's still working without a problem. I don't know what they did to mess their version up like that! (I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.6 + XFree86 3.1.2 now) Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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