bobt@boa.mitron.tek.com (Bob Toole) (06/22/91)
We bought the Motif 1.1 package from ICS. Since we already had X and Xt libraries on the Sun, I installed the ICS stuff in a separate directory and built links to the Motif library. In the process, I ignored links to the shared Xt library. So when I ran, I got many Xt warnings that I was using a release 4 widget against a release 3 intrinsics. However, my application seemed to run very nicely, despite the warnings. Knowing a little about the significant changes in the MIT intrinsics from R3 to R4, I expect that the application would die badly. So my questions: Is the standard Xt shared library on my Sun really R3? If so, how was my application able to run? If not, why do I need the Xt version provided by ICS? I thought that was only a requirement for 1.0.x, not 1.1.x. My Sun OS version 4.0.3. BTW, a minor flame against ICS. I thought their help was less than satisfactory. Granted, the problem was mine since I did not follow their install instructions. But nobody looked in the source code to confirm that it truly was a version mismatch, nobody bothered calling me back looking for more info when they could not reproduce the problem. Just something along the lines "Well, that doesn't happen here on our Sun."