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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xrn on RS/6000
Keywords: xrn, X, Motif, porting
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.171142.5316@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:11:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.095155.29388@bernina.ethz.ch>
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In article <1991Jun3.095155.29388@bernina.ethz.ch>, wuketich@bernina.ethz.ch (Johann Wuketich) writes:
|> Is there any distribution of "xrn" that will compile AND link on my RS/6000.
|> I got the lates Distribution from shambhala.berkeley.edu (xrn6-15.tar.Z)
|> but it seems that my libX, libXm, asf. miss some stuff. 
|> 
|> I compiled the Program with (X11) R3 defined/undefined MOTIF defined/undefined
|> but all ended with compile/link errors. The best result was defining R3 and 
|> MOTIF, which gave the following result:
|> 
|> 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected ...
|> 
|> .XmListGetSelectedPos
|> .XmListReplaceItemsPos
|> .XmListAddItems
|> .XmListItemPos
|> .XawTextDisableRedisplay
|> .XawTextEnableRedisplay
|> .XtCallActionProc
|> .XmTextInsert
|> .XmTextSetCursorPosition
|> 
|> 
|> So what version of xrn and AIX (libX, libXm,...) do I need to get it
|> working ?
|> 
FYI, I got the same version of xrn from the same place (Stanford and Berkeley
are just 40 Mins away :-) and compiled it using X11R4 libs/includes I built 
for our machines.  No problems at all.  Of course, one has to edit out these
BSD type function declaration  like extern char *malloc() etc in src.  As 
a Stanford guy, I am more than happy to eliminate such Berkeley stuff :-)

I have either built (ie, just xmkmf and then make) or ported (src hacking too) 
most well known and some not so well known contributed clients using these R4
libs/includes without too much troubles.  Before IBM provides us a *real* R4
X, I guess this is the way to go for the near future.  Remember you get X11R4
standard clients, color database, and fonts at the same time too.  No server
however :-(

A few examples: kterm, xpostit, xrn, xnlock, xrlogin, xsh, xshowcmap, xtetris,
SeeTeX, xwebster, dclock, hexcalc, xcalendar, xinfo, xcolors, xdiary, xdir, xfig,
xless, tvtwm, acm 2.3 .. and more.  All built using R4 libs/includes. So RISC 6000
is not that bad.

Hope the info helps.

Regards,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu

PS.  One open question however is when IBM can provide RISC 6000 users X11R4?