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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 95 18:29:09 METDST
From:      marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) (Sean Kelly)
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need a way-cool X-based mailer?  Look at XFMail...
Message-ID:  <9509111629.AA11448@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at>
In-Reply-To: <9509111608.AA15850@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>; from "Sean Kelly" at Sep 11, 95 10:08 am

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> >>>>> "Alby" == marino ladavac <marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> writes:

>     >> I didn't think libforms worked with 2.0.5 or higher.  Perhaps
>     >> this is a port that requires the 20compat libraries?

>     Alby> AFAIK, these are different libforms.  Namely library for
>     Alby> XForms.  Alas(tm), these are available binary-only, and
>     Alby> cannot be made into a port.

> Yep, those are the ones I meant.  I tried them out back in the 2.0
> days and they worked fine.

OK, because, IIRC, 2.0 had another set of libforms.  I think these were
used by installer.

>     Alby> XForms binaries require the April pre-2.0.5 SNAP, or later.

> I downloaded a fresh set recently and tried them out with
> 2.0.5-RELEASE and got nowhere.  That's later than pre-2.0.5 SNAP.
> Maybe I didn't try hard enough.

Hmm, I did use XForms on 2.0, but I needed a set of newer xpm libs, and
it did require libc2.6.  I took those off April SNAP.

However, XForms as linked onto the uc (unix commander) works fine on
2.0.5.

???

/Alby




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