aj4640@dean1.usma.edu (Robertson John MAJ) (10/08/90)
I'd like to share my experiences so far in trying to get clients up and running on an AT&T 3B2. The 3B2 runs System V 3.2. While the 3B2 is NOT one of target machines listed in the X11R4 documents, this version of the operating system IS listed (with an AT&T 6386 as the target machine.) I ran into the following BIG problems: 1. The "make world" generated a flood of errors. Some of them were "invalid syntax" in a number of the generated makefiles. Our preprocessor chokes on many of the source files with messages like "too many defines" and "no space." Furthermore a number of the source files look for headers in a directory called /usr/include/lanman which, as Murphy would have it, is nowhere to be found on any of our machines. 2. The "make install" also ran into problems. Obvious ones were linking failures casued by the non-existence of certain .o files. The preprocessor had lots of problems here, too. 3. Surprisingly some of the clients and most of the demos were actually installed, apparently because they only needed only one of the libraries that actually went together. Unfortunately, none of these has yet been run because I can't quite figure out what magic words to put in the Xconnections file. Documentation for this, if it exists, has so far eluded me. Several calls for help were kindly answered by readers of comp.windows.x, but no one was able to answer the critical question regarding the contents of the Xconnections file. As much as I'd like to get clients running on the 3B2, I'm afraid the detective work needed to solve all the puzzles will take more time than I have. Nevertheless, I hate to give up on a challenge and if anyone knows the whereabouts of the magic talisman, I'd be happy to follow it up and report back to the net. Jack