Re: xfig problems (modular xorg-related?)

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> > Please just add that patch to /pkgsrc/x11/Xaw3d/patches/.
> 
> Will do.

Thanks.

> > By the why, what about building pkgsrc/graphics/xfig with: 
> > XAW_TYPE=standard or XAW_TYPE=xpm?
> > 
> My X11 clue is minimal at best; I not only didn't know I could do that,
> I have no idea what those options mean...

It is pkgsrc build option. (But not using options framework.)

XAW is the X Athena Widgets toolkit -- a GUI toolkit. It is higher level 
than and is based on the X Intrinsics toolkit (libXt). libXaw from X 
provides the official versions (well now we have X.org versus XFree86). I 
say plural versions because there are different versions of Xaw (6, 7, 8 
all built from same main source, but each adding new features).

pkgsrc/x11/Xaw3d is a replacement for libXaw that provides a three 
dimensional appearance of many widgets. It should be a compatible 
replacement.

pkgsrc/x11/Xaw-Xpm "is hack on Xaw3d" that allows images to be used for 
widget backgrounds to improve appearance. It should be a compatible 
replacement.

pkgsrc also has pkgsrc/x11/neXtaw which makes the widgets look like 
N*XTSTEP. All these provide a libXaw shared library replacement.

pkgsrc has a pkgsrc/mk/xaw.buildlink3.mk that allows choosing a Xaw 
implementation by setting XAW_TYPE to standard, 3d, neXtaw, or xpm.
You set that in make environment or mk.conf and rebuild.

If anyone is still listening here :) ... I wonder if this should be redone 
using options framework so we can see the Xaw options in "make 
show-options".

By the way, I started using inkscape over a year ago to replace xfig. Not 
exactly the same, but does what I want.

  Jeremy C. Reed