Subject: Re: Motif for m68k NetBSD systems
To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/29/1995 13:44:27
Hi Bruce,

> In the NetBSD-Amiga archives, there's a binary for Mosaic, which is
> statically linked with the Motif libraries.  Does anyone know how this
> was done?  Was it built on a Sun-3 running SunOS, or is it possible to

Yep, that's the way it works :-)

> buy the Motif libraries for another M68K platform, and link with them
> on NetBSD?

Unfortunately not. I tried to contact the OSF for a source code license,
but they didn't bother to answer my request. Maybe they didn't need the
money then. It would have cost me a couple of thousand dollars, but I was
willing to pay. Being a bit angry about being ignored, I am not willing
to do this any more. Instead I am supporting the development of LessTif,
a free Motif-clone. The latest release can be found at:

ftp.hungry.com/pub/hungry/lesstif.

Get it and help the development.

  Guenther