From owner-freebsd-mozilla Tue Jun 9 06:11:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15516 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15085 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.8.8/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 15057 on Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:08:29 GMT; id NAA15057 efrom: marc@bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10796; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:05:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <199806091305.PAA10796@nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tim Pushor Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) In-reply-to: timp's message of Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:20:57 -0000. <357D28A9.C3435D07@orion.ab.ca> Reply-to: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 15:05:15 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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