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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:49:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        handy@sag.space.lockheed.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Motif and XFree86?
Message-ID:  <199802160849.AAA10596@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980215151856.13940N-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> (message from Brian Handy on Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:25:32 -0800 (PST))

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 * Hey folks,
 * 
 * I've got a question or two on the Xig stuff that maybe somebody here can
 * help with.
 * 
 * I've got:  
 * 	(1)  Xig AcceleratedX server
 * 	(2)  Xig Motif 
 * 
 * Now...I've already seen how the Xaccel server can trash my XFree86 tree so
 * I can't compile ports anymore.  (Instances of "GNUmalloc" seem to have
 * been sprinkled somewhere in my tree, and I think that happened to
 * something in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config...but I haven't verified that.
 * (I'm going on Satoshi's comments claiming this is the case.)  
 * 
 * So, I already have a buggered XF86 tree.  Can I fix this by copying the
 * config/cf/* files from the extracted XFree86 port over that?  

Yes.  Move the old directory out of the way first though, just in case 
you have something you want to get back.

 * Also, next I want to install Motif.  I have no need for mwm or any of that
 * stuff, I only want to be able to compile Motif Applications.  This is a
 * two-headed question...(a) Can I just install the development stuff, and

No idea if their installation script will let you do this.  I
recommend you unpack it elsewhere, and just copy the shared libraries
and X11/include/Xm.

 * (b) how do I fix the conf files after this?

If you mean how to be able to use ports that require Motif, you don't
need to do anything except uncommenting HAVE_MOTIF in /etc/make.conf.
(And that's the whole point of our mechanism -- it doesn't depend on
any ideas of the "correct" set of macros of a particular vendor....)

 * I'm asking here rather than Xig because it seems clear that the ports
 * building machine has found a way around all this.  What's the trick?

Just don't use their config files, and you'll be happy. :)

Satoshi

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