[gijoe77]

so I'm trying to compile nedit 5.7 and it turns out I don't have the needed Xm/Xm.h header (and I assume I'm missing the other Motif headers if there are more) - did I miss these somewhere?  I could have sworn I installed any and all dev headers and libraries that came with IRIX.  What am I missing here?

I see that I can probably use a free alternative to Motif called LessTif, but I would really like to get to the bottom of what I'm missing via Motif first

[Raion]

You know motif is open source now right? Tried downloading the latest libs?

[gijoe77]

I saw that it was open source, I downloaded it and didn't see a Xm\Xm.h (I saw a Xm.c and a Xm.h.in), I'm not too sure what to really do with it (other than dump the "Xm" and "Mrm" directories into my /usr/include), but once again unless I rename something its will fail with the Xm.h not found.

What was the way to say compile nedit prior to 2012 when Motif wasn't open source? Is there some CD I missed from SGI that had the Motif libs?

[jan-jaap]

so I'm trying to compile nedit 5.7 and it turns out I don't have the needed Xm/Xm.h header (and I assume I'm missing the other Motif headers if there are more) - did I miss these somewhere?  I could have sworn I installed any and all dev headers and libraries that came with IRIX.  What am I missing here?

I see that I can probably use a free alternative to Motif called LessTif, but I would really like to get to the bottom of what I'm missing via Motif first

Standard Motif under IRIX is 1.2.x. Maybe that's disapproved for being too old.

Late 6.5.x overlays come with Motif 2.1 (disc #3/3), but it never overwrites Motif 1.x, and installs under some strange prefix, /usr/lib/motif21 or similar. You may need to set up INCLUDE_PATH and LIB_PATH to pick it up.

[gijoe77]

ah ok I see it now, thanks jan-jaap