[comp.windows.x.motif] running Motif out of a non-standard place

frank@cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein) (04/23/91)

   Hello.  I have what might be a dumb question.  We run X out of
/usr/local/...  here, rather than straight /usr (e.g. /usr/local/lib
instead of /usr/lib) and so I've changed the imake config files
appropriately.  Recently, someone asked why mwm doesn't seem to be
working, and after playing around it seems like it wants to look in
/usr/lib/X11/...  for it's app-defaults files, which is not where I
want them to be.

   Briefly scanning lib/Xm and lib/Mrm it looks like there's one file
in both where paths are specified, and it looks like /usr/lib is
hardcoded in, rather than coming from the config files.  Does anyone
have any experience with this, advise, suggestions, etc.?  I'd rather
change a few config files than hack the source, but if that's the
solution, that's ok too.

  Thanks.

--Frank Adelstein
  frank@cis.ohio-state.edu