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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Making Motif applications MORE Portable
Message-ID: <916@attc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 15:37:23 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.022449.23322@pa.dec.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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    Trying to build a "subset" of Motif is NOT easy. Since the
    whole toolkit is "spaghettied" together, even if you need
    just 3 widgets, you end up compiling about 70% of the Motif
    code.
    You sure can spare by avoiding few leaf widgets, such as
    file selection. But I doubt it's worth the effort - munging
    the makefiles, finding out what ios needed and what not.
    I believe that taking the whole thing is much easier, and
    then let ld load only what is "needed". You may be surprized
    how much is "needed".


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