>has anyone here yet compiled xwpe on NetBSD? how?

Yes, I have.  On NetBSD 1.4.2.  I just tried 1.5.  You may
have to add -R/usr/X11R6/lib to the Makefile at the right place.
The xwpe version was the 1.5.26a.  The diff for the C code is:

diff -r -u xwpe-1.5.26a/we_xterm.c xwpe-netbsd/we_xterm.c
--- xwpe-1.5.26a/we_xterm.c     Sat Dec 30 17:46:06 2000
+++ xwpe-netbsd/we_xterm.c      Wed Oct  3 09:55:05 2001
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #endif

 #define BUFSIZE 80
+#define FALSE 0

 extern char *e_tmp_dir;



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