[SOLVED] I have troubles compiling CDE for Mageia 9

[chesheer]

First of all, I'm totally new to Mageia. I tried to compile CDE (because why not?) - Common Desktop Environment (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/).
I stumbled upon a compile error saying that file Xm/XpmP.h is not found. I thought that was strange, because it clearly should have come with some of the motif dev packages I had installed.
I tried

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urpmf XpmP.h

but it found nothing.
I have an LMDE machine, and it has XpmP.h. LMDE is basically Debian with extra steps. I asked dpkg where that file comes from:

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dpkg -S XpmP.h

and found out it comes with libmotif-dev. I have it installed on Mageia machine (lib64motif-dev). I compared versions of the package - 2.3.8 on LMDE and the same 2.3.8 on Mageia 9. I don't know if it's strange that the package with the same version lacks one file on Mageia? Is there a way to solve this problem? Of course, I can't just move this file from my LMDE machine to Mageia, because I need the corresponding library for linking as well.

[doktor5000]

Hi there, from what I can tell, the originating package libxp has been dropped and the bundled Xpm copy has been dropped, check https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31867
You'd have to rebuild motif yourself and comment out removing the bundled copy: http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauld ... markup#l96

This also seems to be reflected partially in the recent CDE changes, so if you build from a development checkout of CDE that might also work.

[chesheer]

Thank you very much! That actually helped. I commented out the last patch 11 (motif-2.3.8-system-libxpm.patch - it's the one that removes Xm/XpmP.h file) and the line about removing the lib/Xm/Xpm* files, rebuilt motif package and then successfully compiled and run CDE on Mageia 9. Not that there's much sense in it, but it was fun.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread as solved by editing the subject of the first post and prepending it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.