[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 09/01/2024 23:35, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/9/24 16:25, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Yes, I believe the open source OpenMotif 2.3 is not binary compatible 
>> with the
>> Solaris closed source Motif 2.1.  That shouldn't be a problem for the 
>> packages
>> in OI, if OI rebuilt all the packages to use OpenMotif,
> 
> It's not fully source compatible, either --- there was a function 
> signature change.  Nothing that would be terrible to adjust for IIRC, 
> just tedious in large projects (or across numerous small projects).  But 
> it seems like maybe we don't have much (if anything) left to worry about 
> in OI, anyway.
> 
>  > just for running programs built against the Solaris libraries.
> 
> Yeah, that's the sticking point.  I wonder if there are people out there 
> still running things like that.

One major software package using motif is the GUI for Sun SGE,
which we still have in production. No problem to obsolete the
runtime library, I can just copy the required libraries over
to /usr/local/lib.