Re: xdvi-motif very slow in Debian 10.4

Van Snyder <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:41:13 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.xdvi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
To clarify, it's xdvik.

On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 15:40 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> I had been using xdvi-motif for many years in 32-bit Scientific Linux
> 6.10. I very much preferred it compared to acroread because it is
> much
> faster, and updates automatically.
> 
> I upgraded to 64-bit Debian 10.4.
> 
> I have versions 22.84.10 and 22.84.16. They both were very fast, and
> are now very slow.
> 
> I just now re-made 22.84.16, and it's identical to the one I had.
> "file" says it's a 32-bit executable.
> 
> Why is it so slow?
> 
> Can I compile it as a 64-bit program? None of the "configure --help"
> output has "64".
> 
> Thanks,
> [email protected]
>