lesstif-0.93.36

Introduction to lesstif

Download location (HTTP):       http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lesstif/lesstif-0.93.36.tar.bz2
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Version used:                   0.93.36
Package size:                   2.4 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  62 MB
Estimated build time:           4.24 SBU

The lesstif package contains an Open Source version of OSF/Motif(R).

lesstif depends on:
xfree86-4.3.0

Installation of lesstif

Install lesstif by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --enable-build-20 \
    --enable-build-21 \
    --disable-debug \
    --enable-production \
    --disable-build-tests \
    --with-xdnd &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--enable-build-20 : Build the Motif 2.0 compatible version of the lesstif libraries.

--enable-build-21 : Also build the Motif 2.1 compatible versions.

--disable-debug : Do not generate debugging information.

--enable-production : Build the release version of the lesstif libraries.

--disable-build-tests : Do not build the test/ tree(see testing note below).

--with-xdnd : Enable XDND Gnome compatibility support.

Configuring lesstif

Configuration Information

As with most libraries, there is no configuration to do, save that the library directory i.e. /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib should appear in /etc/ld.so.conf so that ldd can find the shared libraries. After checking that this is the case, /sbin/ldconfig should be run while logged in as root.

Testing Lesstif

It is advisable to test the installation of lesstif with the test suite located in lesstif-0.93.36/test. It is not required to install any of the resulting binaries to validate the installation, the following commands, executed in lesstif-0.93.36/test, will suffice:

./configure &&
make

Contents

The lesstif package contains lesstif libraries.

Description

lesstif libraries

Lesstif libraries are an OSF/Motif(R) source code compatible library for X Windows.