Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mstan!jordan From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Mwm/Motif 1.1 on Sparc? Message-ID: <1665@s5.Morgan.COM> Date: 10 Sep 90 15:32:59 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY Lines: 29 David N. Blank writes: I would guess that others have done this already. Is there anything nasty in the process waiting to bite me? Patches required? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Say, that's a funny one! ----- Here's what will bite you: none of this code has been written with the vaguest notion that it would be compiled on a SPARC. There are tons of problems, and I imagine there will continue to be for a while. 1.0 never got to the point where I couldn't make it core dump after a while. I doubt 1.1 will be any better. I've already found dozens of things that just plain don't work on a SPARC (actually, i'm really suprised that some of it works on DEC an HP machines ...). Don't give up, though! If you have source, send your bugs into the motif-talk mailing list (leading off many questions: no, this is a mailing list for licensees of source, not a public mailing list). I send my bug reports to both the motif-defect list (not distributed) and the motif-talk list (distributed to all source licensees) so that people know where I am and don't have to guess what has already been done. /jordan