[comp.windows.x] X11R4 on RS6000/AIX

benu@max.bnl.gov (David Hassel) (12/06/90)

	Has anyone ported X11R4 to an IBM RS6000.  I have just FTPed the
source and patches from expo and make fails.  Don't want to have to
figure out the whole think if it's already been done before. :-) Could
someone point me to where I could find the patches for AIX?

					Thanks,

						Dave Hassel

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wade@speedy.cs.utk.edu (reed wade) (12/08/90)

In article <366@inetg1.arco.com>, phil@inetg1.Arco.Com (Phil Meyer) writes:
|> In article <2352@bnlux0.bnl.gov>, benu@max.bnl.gov (David Hassel) writes:
|> > 
|> > 	Has anyone ported X11R4 to an IBM RS6000.  I have just FTPed the
|> > source and patches from expo and make fails.
|> 
|> The 6000 that I played with for a couple of days, had the X11R4 
>distribution on the disk under /usr/Examples (I think).  I did a make 
>World on it just for grins, and it completed in 25 minutes!  I no longer 
>have access to that machine so I can't be more specific. 
|> 
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/usr/Examples isn't on any of our machines. You can get a few helpful
things from ~ftp/pub/ibm_rs6000 on cs.utk.edu. I would first recommend
installed the xlc.cfg from there, that make cc act a little more bsdish.

I haven't had much trouble compiling the R4 libraries or clients. Xterm,
however will not work without certain changes. See 
~ftp/pub/ibm_rs6000/R4xterm.patch

-reed
wade@cs.utk.edu

kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) (12/15/90)

wade@speedy.cs.utk.edu (reed wade) writes:
>I haven't had much trouble compiling the R4 libraries or clients. Xterm,
>however will not work without certain changes. See 
>~ftp/pub/ibm_rs6000/R4xterm.patch


I haven't had any luck with the build on our 6000/540. Seems that the
little trick used in config which hides preprocessor directives from
cpp when it really wants to generate a makefile comment:

	/**/# This is a comment

doesn't work on the AIX C preprocessor--it's "too smart" and complains
about an unknown preprocessor directive "This".

Any ideas anyone?

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mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (12/17/90)

> I haven't had any luck with the build [R4, presumably -dM] on our
> 6000/540.  Seems that the little trick used in config which hides
> preprocessor directives from cpp when it really wants to generate a
> makefile comment:

> 	/**/# This is a comment

> doesn't work on the AIX C preprocessor--it's "too smart" and
> complains about an unknown preprocessor directive "This".

This is entirely correct; the AIX preprocessor is working the way ANSI
would have it.

> Any ideas anyone?

I wrote a cpp which comes close enough to the Reiser semantics to work
for every imake run I've tried it with - and that includes building the
whole mit/ subtree on a NeXT.  I have placed this into the public
domain; you can do anything you like with it.

You can ftp it from 132.206.1.1 in X/XNeXT/cpp.shar.Z.

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