openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Fri Sep 1 12:09:49 UTC 2006


Hi Mamoru,

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:35 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> I tried evince with dvi support but evince cannot display dvi file (with
> Japanese character included) correctly.
> 
> tetex-xdvi using Xaw3d (not openmotif) seems to work well and I think
> this is one of the most desirable ways for FC6.

The current teTeX is compiled against libXaw. Does it work correctly for
you with Japanese DVIs? Does a compilation against Xaw3d bring some
advantages related to the Japanese support in comparison with libXaw? I
don't speak Japanese, so I can't try it out myself.

Matsuura Takanori pointed out that Emacs also depends on Xaw3d, so a
recompilation of teTeX to link against Xaw3d would make the intended
libXaw transition, which is noted by Adam Jackson, easier.

I did a little investigation in what depends on libXaw and Xaw3d and the
results are:

libXaw.so.[67] rawhide dependencies:

groff-gxditview
isdn4k-utils
xfig
ddd
xterm
xorg-x11-resutils
xorg-x11-apps
xorg-x11-server-utils
xorg-x11-xdm
xorg-x11-xsm
xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-xkb-utils


libXaw3d.so.7 rawhide dependencies:
emacs

So it looks like I'm going to rebuild teTeX with xdvi linked against
Xaw3d, because we may don't want to put Emacs to Extras, or do we? ;)

Jindrich
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