[Xquartz-dev] What's the story with Xaw3d?

[Peter Collinson]

On 13 May 2009, at 16:05, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

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> On May 13, 2009, at 07:29, Peter Collinson wrote:
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>> Having become somewhat fed up with Macports - whose latest efforts  
>> gives me an Emacs on my PowerPC that says:
>> 	Unresolved inheritance operation
>> This is something todo with X11 I see from some Googling.
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> Not as far as I can tell...
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> Have you 'sudo port -v upgrade outdated' ?
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I did all the good things:
	Fresh install of MacPorts
	sudo port selfupdate
	sudo port install emacs +x11
and got the above error message.

>> Anyway, I've decided to install the few things that are 'essential'  
>> to my life myself.
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>> Emacs 22.3 compiles and runs using the 2.3.3 libraries but I miss  
>> the Xaw3d 'look' on my Linux boxes. Xaw3d compiles and installs  
>> too... so I just wondered why this is not a 'standard' part of the  
>> X11 package.
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> Because it's antiquated and unmaintained (sorry).  I think most  
> linux distros now use gtk2 for emacs rather than xaw3d...
Hmm I'll look into gtk2 as a library install.

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