Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/23/2004 - 17:50.
Pardon my rant ? I aiming for constructive criticism but I could be short of the mark.
I?m trying to build the Motif libraries in order to build the scientific visualization package Open Data Explorer. At the moment the challenge is get all this stuff to work under the SuSE Linux Professional 9.1 distribution (kernel 2.6) in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
I do not pretend to be at the expertise level of a Motif developer ? I don?t even know the relative merits of Berkeley YACC versus Bison.
I brought in the CVS version of Open Motif 2.2.3 and I?ve installed the following utilities: GNU libtool 1.5.6, GNU automake 1.8.4, GNU autoconf 2.59, GNU bison 1.875 (later replaced with Berkeley yacc 20040328), and flex 2.5.31.
I have to conclude that I still do not have the right mix of utilities and/or libraries since I have yet to come close to running MAKE through to a normal termination. Why doesn?t CONFIGURE check these things and report inconsistencies and omissions ? isn?t that part of its mission? Alternatively, why isn?t there a straightforward list in a README file that talks about such things?
Any utility/library suggestions that would move me from my current rut would be appreciated.