Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> (various versions), and SGI IRIX is "nedit". It was included in the
> installation of 9.0 but does not seem to exist in 9.1 (not sure about 9.2).

Nedit uses the motif widget set. Some Motif versions are so buggy it's
not funny, and nedit won't work with the buggy motif versions (which
seems quite fair to me).

Nedit Works fine with openmotif 2.1.30MLI4, last shipped with SuSE 8.0.
Nedit WILL NOT work properly with openmotif 2.2.x and randomly crash
several times a day. 2.2.x is so shocking even the motif vendor(s) warn
against using it.
==> Do not use any SuSE-supplied nedit of 8.1 or later.

I pointed all this out to SuSE, but they obviously never cared. Someone
at SuSE said they needed 2.2.2 because of xyz, multi-processor or 64 bit
etc, I can't remember. Instead of doing the obvious fix for nedit and
using a motif which actually works, SuSE tried to find the bug(s) but
failed, then decided to drop nedit altogether. No comment.

9.1 still has the openmotif 2.1.30 binaries because some netscape-type
browser plugins needs them, but SuSE failed to supply the header files
for them, so you can't compile. You'll need to get the openmotif source
for 8.0 (or 9.1?), compile that first, then compile nedit.

>  if there is a Suse RPM that would install on
> 9.1...

Sure is, properly compiled, all on and for 9.1:

http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/rpm/suse9.1/

I don't have a 64 bit machine so can't make any promises there, but from
what I gather on this list it ought to work just the same. It would be
interesting to see if the openmotif21-libs-2.1.30MLI4 I used compiles
and works on 64 bit.

Alternatively, you could get a working binary (static only) from
nedit.org.

Volker

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