pd@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Paul Davison [postmaster]) (10/31/90)
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I have just [overnight] recompiled X11R3 with the Gnu C compiler,
gcc-1.37.1. However I now have a bad X11. Can anyone throw any
light on the problem?
"xinit" results in the messages:
Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket
sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device
sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Fatal server bug!
Can't find any displays
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
Compilation switches were:
CC = gcc -fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce -finline-functions \
-fpcc-struct-return -DPURDUE -Dinline=INLINE \
-DNOSTDHDRS
Host is a Sun 3/280 running SunOS 4.0.3.
I had to make a few minor changes to the source to allow gcc to work.
For example, I had to edit ~/util/makedepend/main.c to change definition
of catch() from
#ifdefined (ultrix)
void catch();
#else
int catch();
#endif
to
#ifdefined (ultrix)
void catch ();
#else
# ifdef sun
void catch ();
# else
int catch ();
# endif
#endif
During compilation, I got no errors, and the only warnings were about
i. functions implicitly declared external redeclared static
ii. useless keywords
Both are ok.
Running my old [Sun cc compiled] X11R3, I still can't run any of my new
clients. For example, I get:
gav% xlogo
XIO: fatal IO error 45 (Operation not supported on socket) on X server
"gav:0.0"
after 30 requests (17 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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> I have just [overnight] recompiled X11R3 with the Gnu C compiler, > gcc-1.37.1. However I now have a bad X11. Can anyone throw any > light on the problem? > "xinit" results in the messages: > Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket > sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device > sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Fatal server bug! > Can't find any displays > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server I think this is a FAQ (but I suppose that doesn't help someone without news access...). The problem lies with gcc's include files. You need to run (or rerun, or perhaps fix and rerun :-) gcc's fixincludes script. Try a simple test. Put the following two lines in a file, say foo.c: #include <sys/ioctl.h> SIOCGIFCONF Run `cc -E foo.c' and `gcc -E foo.c', and compare the last line of output from them. You will[%] see that the gcc output has 'x' where the cc output has 'i'. They should be (functionally) identical. Play with fixincludes etc until this works (if this doesn't work, there's little hope for X). [%] Almost certainly. Every time I've heard of this, the problem has been as I've described here. > Running my old [Sun cc compiled] X11R3, I still can't run any of my > new clients. For example, I get: > gav% xlogo > XIO: fatal IO error 45 (Operation not supported on socket) on X server "gav:0.0" > after 30 requests (17 known processed) with 0 events remaining. This is more of the same thing. The problem is that when gcc uses your Sun-provided include files, all the ioctl defines (like SIOCGIFCONF) come out with the wrong values, so all ioctls fail. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu