On 1/9/24 16:25, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Yes, I believe the open source OpenMotif 2.3 is not binary compatible with the Solaris closed source Motif 2.1.  That shouldn't be a problem for the packages
in OI, if OI rebuilt all the packages to use OpenMotif,

It's not fully source compatible, either --- there was a function signature change. Nothing that would be terrible to adjust for IIRC, just tedious in large projects (or across numerous small projects). But it seems like maybe we don't have much (if anything) left to worry about in OI, anyway.

> just for running programs built against the Solaris libraries.

Yeah, that's the sticking point. I wonder if there are people out there still running things like that.

-- Matthew R. Trower

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