On 09/01/2024 23:35, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
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.
One major software package using motif is the GUI for Sun SGE,
which we still have in production. No problem to obsolete the
runtime library, I can just copy the required libraries over
to /usr/local/lib.
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