Re: Can we use Interviews on Red Hat Linux 7.3 ?

[Scott J. <joh...@ve...>]

At 3:43 PM +0800 1/10/03, to...@se... wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>Thanks for your reply. In fact, i am interested in the porting of
>Interviews from Unix to Red Hat Linux only. Do you know how complex it is
>to port Interviews from Unix to Linux? Or is there anyone else i can
>consult? Thanks again Scott. Your reply is very much appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>David
>

Porting InterViews to RedHat 7.3 is more about changing InterViews to 
get it compiled with a recent version of gcc.  As far as I know, no 
one has been getting InterViews compiled with recent versions of gcc. 
Several years ago there used to be an RPM for iv-3.1, but I haven't 
seen it in the last few years. And there have been a lot of (minor) 
changes over the years required to these libraries, I know, because I 
went through them all.  Most of it is conformance to the ANSI 
standard.

You can use the ivtools source tree as a reference, but I really 
think it would be less work for you to use the InterViews and Unidraw 
libraries out of the ivtools source tree.  They are the same for the 
most part, with only bug fixes and compilation fixes accrued over 
time.

Scott Johnston
http://www.ivtools.org