Graham Inggs <graham.in...@gmail.com> wrote on 08/06/2015 11:42:12 AM:
> Hi Brian > > Thanks for reporting this. > > > > > This symbol is still defined in the man pages for libmotif4, so it > is odd that > > it is no longer available. > > From the xmredisplaywidget(3) man page: > > > This is primarily used in the context of X Printing if the > > programming model chosen by the application is > > synchronous; that is, it doesn't rely of X Print events for > > the driving of page layout but wants to completely > > control the sequence of rendering requests. > > The Motif package in Debian contains the following in README.Debian: > > * The Xprint library has been deprecated in Debian for some time now (see > #657253), so the low-level print support of Motif has not worked > for that time. Upsteam Motif now has a configure option to not build the > printing support, but doing so removes symbols that would otherwise be > present. As we are now moving Motif to the main archive, packages now depending on > lesstif2 in Debian don't depend on the printing functionality and > need to be rebuild agains motif, and the motif libraries are split into > different packages anyway, we have decided to just configure Motif without xprint > support without bumping the soname (upstream should have done that > properly). > At the time we made this change (February 2013), Paul and I were unable > to find any programs that made use of the Xprint library, both in the > Debian archive and amongst the proprietary programs we had access to. > Since the Xprint support would not work anyway, we were considering > write dummy functions in order to avoid breaking the ABI, but without > any programs with which to test, we scrapped the idea. > > Is there anywhere we can obtain this ClearCase software? Unfortunately it is (expensive) proprietary software. > Does a more recent version of ClearCase exist? This happens on all ClearCase releases, since the merge tool in question has been in "crash-level-defect" only mode since time immemorial. Have to see if this qualifies... > IIRC, RHEL deprecated Xprint around 2007, so if a version compiled after > that date exists, it may have been compiled without Xprint support and > would not use the XmRedisplayWidget symbol. I think that Red Had got around it by configuring it to still have "printing" support as the current libraries still export the symbol, even on RHEL 6.6.
