Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk for X11R4?

[David Cooke <dcooke clmp com>]

Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, David Cooke wrote:
> 
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I've searched the archive for any info about compiling Gtk/Gdk for X11R4,
> > but it keeps coming back with a script timeout.  Has anyone tried compiling
> > for R4?
> >
> > I'd really like to have the same toolkit on both my machines, but one
> > is SunOS 4.13/X11R4.  I did a few quick hacks and got something that
> > more or less hangs together, but don't really want to be re-inventing
> > the wheel.
> >

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> You might be able to get it working, but in essence, GTK+
> is targeted at X11R5 and newer. X11R5 was released more
> than 8 years ago.

and Scott Stone wrote:
>
> I didn't realize anyone was still using an X that was that old!  R6 came
> out what, 4 years ago?  5 years ago?  You're probably better off
> downloading the new source for X11R6.3 and compiling it on that box.

The machine is ancient (a SparcStation 1), and so is SunOS and X11R4,
but it has loads of stuff on it that I can't move.  Besides I enjoy
keeping the thing going as a matter of principle I guess.

While I'd like to upgrade the X server, I can't really go that route.
The sun-built R4 server also include display postscript, and several
useful apps rely on this.  Probably the most useful of these is a
postscript previewer that does anti-aliasing, and is still (after all
these years) better than ghostscript.
 
> If you can actually do this without sacrificing a goat or something, I'd
> be really surprised :).  I highly doubt that anyone else has tried this...

I offered up multi-byte string encoding as a sacrifice to please the
gods, abandoned hope of using FontSets for the short term, and it hung
together enough to get the testgtk working (except for selections), and
build & run the Xchat app.

Unless anyone else is interested (which seems unlikely) I'll probably
just take a copy of the cvs tree and make my own branch off it so I
can keep it reasonably up to date as gtk develops.

	David Cooke.
	(Please send more goats)