Subject: Re: xforms
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: T. M. Pederson <salvage@plethora.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/05/2001 08:51:52
On "Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:39:38 -0400", mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, T. M. Pederson wrote:
>
>> I got around it by grabbing the sparc-aout version of xforms-0.88 and
>> pulling the fd2ps binary from there.  Basically, I did a make extract
>> of the (elf) package, dropped the a.out binary in the apropriate place
>> in the work directories and went from there.
>> 
>> I tried contacting the author, but got the impression that we're
>> expected to upgrade to 0.89 to fix things on this end.
>
>does this mean that sources are finally available?

Nope, it's still binary just like 0.88.  Source won't be
released until 1.0.
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