On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Wallace Owen wrote:
Hi, folks. I updated my so/ho machine from FC3 to FC6 this week. Looks pretty, and as easy to get used to as an old slipper. But I have to support software that uses the Motif widget set, and discovered that because of licensing issues Red Hat is no longer distributing openmotif with Fedora. So I got the source tarball from OSF, and tried to install it. No good. openmotif can not be built on FC6 because it needs but can't find /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h and libXp.so, which are no longer provided by RedHat. Does anyone know: 1) why libXp was removed (some other license issue?)? 2) how to get it back (what X SRPM do I need to build, and what do I need to change in it's build script to re-enable creation of libXp)?
I was also disappointed by this, I always used motif, but I guess there was a licensing problem so they didn't want to include it anymore. You can get prebuilt rpms from rpmbone.net, or even the FC5 rpms seem to be pretty much the same.
