On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Michael Franz wrote:
While trying to configure IcedTea, I found that although lesstif is a dependency, I was not able to get configure to be happy until I installed openMotif.
You might want to file a bug report on that - looks like the IcedTea maintainer simply backed the wrong horse in the dependency list.
lesstif was missing things like Xm.h, Display.h. Is one of these more popular than another? Does the Darwin/OS X world have a preference for one? Can the two ports be used interchangeably?
No. Maybe. No. :-) Given that it's the original reference code base, openMotif clearly implements the API standard and is far more free to extend/change that API standard. Lesstif is LGPL'd and doesn't have the poison-pill license (to commercial organizations, interestingly enough) that openMotif has, so others still have a reason to prefer it, even though it's always going to be playing catch-up (and not fully interchangeable). - Jordan