dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (06/08/90)
One of my jobs is to snag all of the wonderful contributed and
posted software, and place it in our shared /usr/local/bin
directories.
Now that lots more people are writing Xt programs and supplying
app-defaults files, I want to be able to put these in
/usr/local/lib/app-defaults, which can be shared. For now, this means
having every user set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, which isn't always
acceptable (it's tough enough to get people to put /usr/local/bin in
their paths).
Is there a way to set up Xt so that it will look in both /usr/lib/X11
and /usr/local/lib without forcing each user to do something special?
Would it be acceptable to make this a standard part of Xt?
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"If I had a hat the size of Oklahoma, I'd be a happy person."bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (06/08/90)
In article <1990Jun7.171528.4968@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
...For now, this means having every user set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH,
which isn't always acceptable (it's tough enough to get people to
put /usr/local/bin in their paths)... Is there a way to set up Xt
so that it will look in both /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/local/lib
without forcing each user to do something special?
From expo.lcs.mit.edu:pub/R4/ERRATA, dated Jan 19 10:17:
2. If you are trying to install library files into a directory other than
/usr/lib/X11, you'll need to change XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT and ERRORDB
in the file mit/lib/Xt/IntrinsicI.h to point at the correct directories.
You'll also need to change SYSTEM_INIT_FILE in mit/clients/twm/parse.c.
You'll also need to add the following line to mit/lib/Xmu/Imakefile:
DEFINES = -DBITMAPDIR=\"$(INCDIR)/bitmaps\"
Though it may be overkill, my IntrinsicI.h looks like:
/* used by XtResolvePathname */
#ifndef XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT
#define XFILESEARCHPATHDEFAULT "/usr/local/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%S:/usr/local/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%S:/usr/local/lib/X11/%T/%N%S:/usr/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%S:/usr/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%S:/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%S"
#endif