[Freeciv] Re: help!

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:27:20AM +0100, Paul Dean wrote:
> Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> Ah, of course. No Athena on the HP system perhaps? I have no idea,
> >> will check.
> 
> > Athena is everywhere.  But libXpm sisn't (not on Solaris, anyway).
> 
> yeah, I think I was lucky to have libXpm installed on the Solaris
> system I use.  Last time I tried something which needed it was
> hopeless.

Would it be worthwhile to publish a detailed 'libXpm installation on
Solaris' on the Freeciv site?  It would be even better to add autoconf
support to the libXpm source, but I don't think I'm experienced enough
to do that right.

> In my (limited - so contradict me) experience of programming in X,
> hardcoding an xpm handler wouldn't be so difficult.

I'm not sure what you mean by that ...

> But then,
> hardcoding the whole thing in xlib wouldn't be so hard - it's not like
> the windowing is at all fancy with the Xaw client.

Depends on what you mean by 'fancy'; the Xaw client code is slightly
'lower level' compared to the GTK+ client but not all that much harder
to maintain.

-- 
Reinier