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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:28:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        joed@engg.ksu.edu (Joe Diehl)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Motif and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199606120929.LAA04594@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606120804.DAA22519@gandalf.me.ksu.edu>

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> Hello,
> 
> A few weeks ago I posted asking about compiling Motif under FreeBSD.  I'd
> like to thank everyone who replied again....  I was able to compile Motif 2.0
> and have now been compiling and running Motif apps for about a week.
> 
> I do still have my install notes sitting around... If there is any interest
> I could clean them up a little bit and post them somewhere.  Though the
> compile worked out to be fairly simple.
> 
> Btw- The existing version of flex in 2.1.0-RELEASE (v 2.4.7 I believe) is
> not high enough to compile Motif, instead I needed to fetch and install
> v2.5.3...  Anyway to get this updated in future release of FreeBSD?

flex is also in ports/devel/flex and you might get it to your
machine this way. Though the version there is v2.5.2 you might
try to bump the version number in the Makefile, pull from the
master site and build (after removing files/md5 since the checksum
wouldn't fit anymore).


> 
> Thanks again.. :)
> 
> ---
> Joe Diehl <joed@engg.ksu.edu>
> Network and Systems Administrator
> KSU College of Engineering
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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