From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Dec  7 15:37:16 1996
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA16195
          for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:37:16 -0800 (PST)
Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA16183
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:37:14 -0800 (PST)
Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA29002; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:36:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23707; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:36:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199612072336.PAA23707@athena.tera.com>
Subject: Re: Lesstif
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961208104317.178A-100000@rlyon.mynet.au> from Richard Lyon at "Dec 8, 96 10:57:20 am"
To: rlyon@ozemail.com.au (Richard Lyon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:36:40 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kline@tera.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

According to Richard Lyon:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >   Just a note to the adventurous--and you don't have to be that
> >   adventuresome.  Lesstif, v0.71 looks pretty interesting.  It's
> >   fairly solid given it's alpha status.  
> > 
> >   It configures itself; you just type ./configure; then 
> >   make install, and set up your .xsession to fire off ``mwm&''
> >   rather than your current window manager.  
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you been able to get the static libraries compiled? I need to switch 
> over to static libs for debugging mwm. Yesterday I managed to get mwm to 
> do a core dump on one of my own motif apps.

	
	I didn't try the static.  Have to go back and read the
	compilation//installation docs.  Hm, wait.  One library,
	libltc.a is there.  The rest are all *.so.* libs: Mrm and
	Xm. 

	Which app are you working away at, and were you able to
	learn anything from gdb?

> 
> The dynamic libs compiled ok, but the when I try and make the static 
> versions some of the linking for clients fails.


	Are you using  make or gmake?  I use things-GNU for almost
	everything, but with lesstif,  gmake hiccups and quits.
	Or is it more involved??

> 
> There was another current snapshot release about 2 days after 0.71.

	Right, I saw that.  According to the lesstif writeup, they
	play to do roughly one release a month, 0.72, 0.73... to
	0.75 will is scheduled to be another major version.

	If enough hackers pound on it and help out, it'll be a 
	major win.

> 
> The documentation project does seem to be lagging a bit. Most people 
> won't want to buy the OSF documentation set.
> 

	Seems understandable.  I haven't waded into the docs yet.
	Still getting my feet wet!

	later on,

	gary


> 
>