[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Cleaning up configure.in

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2001, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > I thought to myself... what is the standard X app that everyone
>> > uses that is Xaw based? XTerm.  What X version has public access
>> > mailing-lists that would pop up on Google?
>> > 
>> > So... "autoconf xterm site:xfree86.org" and "I'm Feeling Lucky".
>> 
>> That's a good idea, but unfortunately Xterm doesn't use Xaw, just
>> Xt.
> 
> Actually it does. For the scrollbar and menus at least:
> 
> #include <X11/Xaw/SimpleMenu.h>
> #include <X11/Xaw/Box.h>
> #include <X11/Xaw/SmeBSB.h>
> #include <X11/Xaw/SmeLine.h>
> 
> #include <X11/Xaw/Scrollbar.h>
> 
> 
> Xt isn't a toolkit. Its a library to build toolkits. Xaw is the
> toolkit (Xaw Athena Widgets) based on Xt that usually comes with X.
> Motif is another toolkit based on Xt.

Oops.  I looked at configure.in in Xterm, and it only seems to search
for Xt.  Since the presence of Xt does not necessarily imply the
presence of Xaw (I've heard at least some commercial vendors leave it
out), I jumped to the conclusion that Xterm doesn't use Xaw.

> You probably already know this but i wanted to make sure :-)

Yes, though I freely admit that I don't have any experience with X
programming.

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