diff --git a/GUI/xephem/Makefile b/GUI/xephem/Makefile
index 6fa4405..4aa7b0a 100644
--- a/GUI/xephem/Makefile
+++ b/GUI/xephem/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # Sample compile and link flags for a few systems. Find your system or similar
 # and uncomment as required. The default is for linux or Mac OS X systems.
 # The only real challenge usually is to set the MOTIFI and MOTIFL macros.
-# Note that some Motif libraries use the printing frame buffer and so need -lXp.
 
 # The basic idea to build XEphem is to first go compile the libraries in
 # ../../lib* then come back here and compile and link all the *.c files into
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ CC = gcc
 CLDFLAGS = -g
 CFLAGS = $(LIBINC) $(CLDFLAGS) -O2 -Wall -I$(MOTIFI) -I/opt/X11/include
 LDFLAGS = $(LIBLNK) $(CLDFLAGS) -L$(MOTIFL) -L/opt/X11/lib
-XLIBS = -lXm -lXp -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lX11
+XLIBS = -lXm -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lX11
 LIBS = $(XLIBS) $(LIBLIB) -lm
 
 # static linking on Apple using X11 libs from ports
diff --git a/GUI/xephem/descrip.mms b/GUI/xephem/descrip.mms
index d6b5e56..f32bd1f 100755
--- a/GUI/xephem/descrip.mms
+++ b/GUI/xephem/descrip.mms
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 # idea to build xephem is to first go compile the libraries in ../../libastro,
 # ../../libip, ../../liblilxml and ../../libjpegd then come back here and
 # compile and link all the *.c files into one executable, xephem. 
-# Note: some motif libraries now use the printing frame buffer and need -lXp
 
 # -I and -L flags to find required supporting libraries
 
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ CC = cc
 #CLDFLAGS = -ffast-math
 CFLAGS = $(LIBINC) 
 LDFLAGS = 
-#XLIBS = -lXm -lXp -lXt -lXext -lSM -lICE -lXmu -lX11
+#XLIBS = -lXm -lXt -lXext -lSM -lICE -lXmu -lX11
 #LIBS = $(XLIBS) $(LIBLIB) -lm
 
 # MKS Enterprise toolkit