On 18-Dec-00 at 16:45, Alexander Mai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 07:15:36 -0500 (EST), Rick Scott wrote:
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> >We did change the _XtwaitForSomething to _XtWaitForSomething in the R5
> >case, but only because it looked like a typo. I don't think any of us
> >actually build with R5. You could help us out by doing
> >
> >nm /usr/X/lib/libXt.so | grep ForSomething
> >
> >with your R5 lib to verify what this symbol is.
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> Well, isn't this one of those calls which we discussed about since it's
> not official and therefore causing trouble (WRT xthreads and obviously now
> again) and you were indicating we should replace it completly? ...
> But looks like nobody else knows how to do and the mailinglist
> archive doesn't feature the initial thread.
Yes it should be eliminated. We should be able to do the same thing with event
handlers, and maybe a timeout, I can't remember right now. It is a rather
wickedly confusing piece of code though.....
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> I had a R5 box around here (AIX 3.x) but unfortunately it was decided that
> one does not longer need it and so it has been disconnected from the
> net :-<
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> Alexander Mai
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