In "Re: is anyone porting xforms?", Nico van Eikema Hommes
<hommes@derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote: 
>     Hi Rick,
> 
> >Has anyone ported xforms, or is anyone working on it?  If not, i'd be
> >interested in trying.  With xforms ported, lyx could be ported (for
> >those not familiar, it's a near wysiwyg text/word processor, which can
> >generate latex).  It handles equations graphically, and shows equation
> >editor as the clunky toy it is.
> >Oh, the hard part:  only the binaries are distributed.  There is an
> >amiga (or is it atari?) port.

The NetBSD/m68k version of XForms is built on NetBSD/Amiga afaik, but this
doesn't really matter as any of the m68k ports can use it.

> 
> I've tried the most recent version (0.86 or so): the GUI builder ran out of
> the box (a bit tedious, as I have only monochrome X and no 3-button mouse),
> but building a MkLinux application failed, because some "gl" routines were
> missing (these are being called by the library). I have not yet looked into
> why this happens, or what else should be installed.

It's a bug in 0.86 of the shared library.  You can extract the modules from
the .a file, and rebuild the shared lib w/o gl.o, and the problem
goes away.  I've made the XForms people aware of the problem, so 0.87
(or whatever) should have this fixed.




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