Xforms RPMs

I've now removed the old pre-opensource rpms. If you need 0.89 then let me know.

For more information about Xforms, visit the Xforms Home Page.
The rpm packages are built from the standard released versions available from the main Xforms release page or from the version 1.0 open-source sources. The only exception is the 1.0 versions have my image patch applied (this fixes a bug in flimage_dup(), and makes jpeg + gif reading better).

For more information on open-souce xforms then go check out Savannah
The most recent version I've built is 1.0 and the source is available on savannah

My RPMs all have the same structure and break the release into 3 parts.

• The main release (xforms-...) is the runtime libraries. Install this if you want to use dynamic linked xforms apps.
• The developer tools (xforms-devel-...) contains the GUI designer and the compile time libraries. Install this and the main release if you want to develop xforms applications.
• The demo programs (xforms-demos-...) are a suite of programs showing example of how to use xforms. Install this and the main release if you want to look at the examples (and both the other packages if you want to compile the demos). They install into /usr/lib/xforms/DEMOS. To build the demos,

  	cd /usr/lib/xforms/DEMOS
  	xmkmf -a
  	make
  

  Note that I've done a couple of minor hacks to the Imakefile to make this work without the rest of the package. If it doesn't work for you or if you are really serious about building from scratch - go get the master sources and do it properly.

The tools in the devel packages and the demos in the pre-built demos packages are dynamic linked (hence you need appropriate glibc to link against). I've tested the new 1.0 builds on RH5.2, RH7.1 and FC2 and they all seem fine.. The base "xforms" package is likely to be more library version tolerant and thats all you need if you just want to run xforms apps.

New Opensource Xforms

Built on platform	Xforms version	TGZ files	RPM files
i386/glibc2.0.7 (RedHat 5.2)	Version 1.0	bxform-1.0.tgz(965k)	xforms-1.0-1.i386.rpm(322k) xforms-devel-1.0-1.i386.rpm(661k) xforms-demos-1.0-1.i386.rpm(153k)
i686/glibc2.2.2 RedHat 7.1	Version 1.0	bxform-1.0-glibc.2.2.2.tgz(1020k)	xforms-1.0-1.i386.rpm(346k) xforms-devel-1.0-1.i386.rpm(530k) xforms-demos-1.0-1.i386.rpm(153k)

The Xforms manuals can be found at

• Post script versions

How the RPMs were built

  _SOURCE_
  _VERSION_
  _RELEASE__
  _SERIAL_
  _MAKEFLAG_  (blank or '# ')

The packages were all built with a script similar to the following

  #!/bin/sh
  ROOT=/home/xforms
  echo "topdir: $ROOT/build" > $ROOT/rpmrc
  rpm --rcfile $ROOT/rpmrc -ba xforms-generic.spec
  rm $ROOT/rpmrc

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