On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Martin Tee wrote:

> When compiling Lesstif v0.83 the configure command is used
> which uses config.guess to extract information. It obtains
> machine and system details with the uname command. The only
> arm computer it expects is the Riscix. To get the script
> to work I added an extra case statement for arm32 but
> still made it respond like it was a Riscix. ie
> 
I have always overidden the automatic detect on the command line and
specifying arm-arm-netbsd as the system description.
> BTW how do we go about informing developers of the existence 
> of RiscBSD so it can be included in their configuration options?
> 
All you actually need to do is get an up to date version of autoconf
and recreate the configure script with it.
> On another subject, am I right in thinking we can only link with
> static libraries ie lib*.a files? If so, do we have all the files
> for X programming, as I can't find an libXt.a library.
> 
As of the 1.3ALPHA snapshot it is possible in general to link applications
with shared libraries. There are some problems with this which have
already been well covered on this list.

Mike