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From: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Klavs Klavsen <kl@××××.dk>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why not OpenMotif-2.2.x?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:45:23
Message-Id: 200404251244.45592.lanius@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Why not OpenMotif-2.2.x? by Klavs Klavsen
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4 Am Saturday 24 April 2004 13:02 schrieb Klavs Klavsen:
5 > I have heard that something with openmotif-2.2.x was fundamentally broken
6 > - but a forum search, bugs.gentoo.org and a google search did not give me
7 > any hints as to what is so wrong with that version of openmotif.
8 >
9 > I have found that many other distros seem to be using that version,
10 > without problems AFAIK - so I'm left wondering..
11 >
12 > I also know, that I had openmotif-2.2 installed on my systems earlier
13 > (when there was a 2.2 ebuild - and it worked just fine for me).
14 >
15 > My reason for wanting openmotif-2.2 is that I would like to make use of
16 > regex-coach program from http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
17 >
18 > it's a really great program, which is unfortunately only free as in beer -
19 > not as in freedom.
20 >
21 > When I try to run it, I get this:
22 > Error: Motif version string ("@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30") indicates invalid
23 > library version. Requires (("Lesstif" "2.1") ("Motif" "2.2")).
24 >
25 > etcat -v lesstif says:
26 > * x11-libs/lesstif :
27 > [ ] 0.93.94 (0)
28 >
29 > All in all - I would very much like it if you could inform me why Gentoo
30 > is using an (in other distros eyes) old version of opemotif (and
31 > appereantly also old version of lesstif)?
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33 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29388
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35 mfg, heinrich
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