On 28 Apr, Stephen Potts <64310205@doc.mmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> How do you know that a tar/gzip file is indeed a NetBSD package ? I have
> also recently installed 1.3Alpha and have all the distribution sets I
> wanted to install, but have now downloaded things like lesstif.  Is this
> installed using the package install then ?
If you download lesstif-0.83 you will need to compile it. Just
gunzip and untar it to create all the files in a lesstif directory.
I found I had to modify the config.guess file and use make -i
to compile everything. It complained about a .la file IIRC
but it all seems to work OK for Motif 1.2 progs. It puts the libraries
in usr/local/lib so you'll need to update your PATH and ld.so.conf
file in /etc.

Cheers

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