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Most people should use stable LessTif releases. People with specific problems that have just been fixed should use the most recent version of the source, straight from the CVS repository. If you want to use CVS, keep reading this text. If not, you might want to go to the download page. We need people to test the current sources, so if you are up to it, go ahead!
To access CVS, first set the environment variable CVSROOT
to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.lesstif.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lesstif
.
How you do this depends on your shell.
If you use the bourne shell, you can type
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.lesstif.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lesstifIf you use csh, you will have to use the setenv command. After that, you have to login to CVS. You do this by typing cvs login. When prompted, just hit Enter (an empty password). After that, you can type cvs -z5 checkout lesstif to retrieve the sources for the first time.
You can also browse the CVS repository using your favourite web browser. This is obviously not useful for downloading the complete source tree, it is just a convenient way to use CVS's versioning mechanism to figure out exactly what is in which version, or what changed recently. The browsable CVS is at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lesstif/?cvsroot=lesstif.
To build LessTif from a CVS checkout you will also need libtool, automake and autoconf (see our installation instructions). Once you have the lesstif module checked out, and the GNU tools set up, you will need to go to the top directory in the LessTif tree and type:
./CVSMakein order to create the configure script. Once this is done you are ready to carry on to configuring LessTif, as described in the INSTALL file of the distribution.
-D
option).
However some people forget that CVS remembers these
settings ("sticky") and won't update to the current
level unless indicated to so. Specifying the current date will
only help once, better remove the sticky bits by the
-A
option.
cvs update -P