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Hi all, |
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Attached is an ebuild for the Xwindows widget set Xaw3d, which is not in the |
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main XFree86 distro. I made an ebuild for it becaus it's used by gv, which |
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I'm about to make an ebuild for as well, beacuse it's used by LyX, without |
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which I can't live. |
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This should go into x11-libs/Xaw3d. |
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The build process is rather complicated. A short explanation follows. The |
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ebuild itself also contains many comments. |
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Xaw3d is a widget set 'contributed' to the official X distro of the X |
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Consortium at www.x.org. It didn't enter XFree86. |
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Like all X stuff, it has Imakefiles. It also cannot build outside the main X |
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tree source. A patch is added to rectify the problem |
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(Xaw3d-out-of-tree.diff). The second patch addresses substituion of Xfree86 |
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for generic XR6.4 (Xaw3d-xfree86.diff). |
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The patches were not written by me. They are modifications of Slackware's |
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adaption of Xaw3d. The original version is at |
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http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/slackware/slackware_source/x/xaw3d/ |
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and has a very nice SlackBuild shell script from which I derived the ebuild's |
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compile function. |
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Another helpful URL is at the gv homepage, |
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http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/Xaw3d.html |
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and gives similar instructions. However the ebuild uses rather the Slackware |
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ideas. |
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Note: the original Xaw3d package can be downloaded from any mirror of |
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ftp.x.org. However some of the mirrors listed on www.x.org are partial and |
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don't contain this file. I was to lazy to check them all and enter a |
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corrected list into the ebuild, therefore as of now it only has ftp.x.org and |
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ibiblio.org listed. |
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Dan Armak |
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