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)? libXp is still available. what i'm particularly interested in is that the oracle installation instructions for FC6 *explicitly* state that openmotif is required. is lesstif adequate for oracle? rday
