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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ButtFace
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808301630160.3292-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808302251430.4430-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > I'm still laughing at this, but it's real.
> > 
> > I was trying to get a package called mpsql to port, and couldn't get it
> > to link.  It kept on wanting a symbol called _XmCreatePixmapPushButton,
> > and I couldn't find what library it was in.
> > 
> > Finally found it in /usr/X11R6/lib/libButtFace.a.  Nearly fell over
> > laughing at the name.
> > 
> > That's the one, all right, but in trying to figure out what mpsql wants
> > to depend on, I need to find out where this ButtFace thing came from.
> > Its on a pixmap thing (not from the xpm port), and I just can't locate
> > it.  Anyone remember this odd fella?
> 
> Isn't it something related to Motif? This _Xm* prefix...

You're a little tardy.  Tim Vanderhoek found it in libhelp (it's a port,
x11-toolkits/libhelp).  I have to admit _I_ first guessed Motif.

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> Andrzej Bialecki
> 
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