[xcpc] Built against libXaw because lesstif has been retired for F24

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jul 19 14:39:52 CEST 2016


On 07/19/2016 12:48 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 12:16, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 07/19/2016 09:26 AM, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
>>> <dominik at greysector.net <mailto:dominik at greysector.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 17:01, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
>>>     > commit a0cdaee43b67a890b569ca6043f73183f9474134
>>>     > Author: Andrea Musuruane <musuruan at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:musuruan at gmail.com>>
>>>     > Date:   Sun Jul 17 17:01:36 2016 +0200
>>>     >
>>>     >     Built against libXaw because lesstif has been retired for F24
>>>
>>>     You could've switched to openmotif instead, but of course it's your
>>>     call.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, I couldn't. Opermotif only supports motif2 API while xcpc requires
>>> motif1 API :(
>>
>> You seem to be confused.
>>
>> F24 ships with Motif (not OpenMotif - OpenMotif is obsolete).
>
> openmotif package is obsolete (still available in EL-5/6), but it was
> re-added to Fedora as motif, so we are actually talking about the same
> thing after all.
Not quite. OpenMotif used to be the "free" branch of Motif.

The "Motif" package is the "real thing", which was closed source for 
decades.

Ralf


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