On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:47:33PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >Well, I think these patches do need to be reviewed and integrated, so
> >that we can work on HP-UX.  But I don't think they do anything like
> >make our code cleaner.
> 
> Kevin used G++ IIRC. Boc didn't.

Aah.  *Light dawns*  One wonders why HP hasn't fired their compiler
team, and just switched to GCC.  I hear more bad stories about it
(like header that #define const ) than about all other compilers
combined.   

> 
> >I'm curious, though.  Kevin Vajk did lots of work on HP-UX, even
> >creating makefile rules to create the native packages.  So why didn't
> >he run into these problems?
> 
> A lot of boc's code (which is quite good, btw, but i need to hand-merge ;-( 
> ) involves us working on multi-depth visuals/monitors. For us to do this, we 
> need to push the gdk_rgb_visual|colormap before we create a new 
> gtk_drawing_area (exactly like a gnome-canvas)

There are some IRIX bugs about this in bugzilla, too.  You might want
to check them out.  
           
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