ports/67617: Non-Maintainer update: editors/nedit - Add BUILD_BROKEN_NEDIT to build with Open Motif 2.2.2 (default)
Joerg Fischer
jf505 at gmx.de
Sun Jun 6 05:45:11 UTC 2004
>There has been some discussion about the validity of the NEdit
>authors' position on stability,
FYI, it is not at all about the "NEdit's author's position". OM 2.2.2
is *buggy*. See for example
http://www.suse.de/de/private/products/suse_linux/prof/packages_professional/openmotif21-libs.html
This Motif version is needed by Oracle (e.g.
Forms&Reports), the newer 2.2.x Motif does not work
and is not certified with Oracle.
>however I suggest this patch independently of this argument for the
>simple reason that the port fails to install by default. See the
>freebsd-ports archive for details.
An I would suggest at least to update to OM 2.2.3, which is a bugfix
release fixing among many other things also the bug in the tooltip
code that crashed not only nedit (where using tooltips wasn't necessary
at all to get crashed, btw).
-- Jörg
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