gustav@arp.anu.oz.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) (02/01/90)
I have been trying to install MIT's X11R4 on the Sequent Symmetry S27 running DYNIX(R) V3.0.12 NFS. I have defined sequent.cf as follows: #define OSName 4.2bsd #define OSMajorVersion 4 #define OSMinorVersion 2 #define HasSaberC YES /* not sure about this */ /* but most of other .cf files */ /* had it set to YES */ #define HasVoidSignalReturn NO #define SystemV NO #define HasBsearch NO #define HasInputExtension NO /* cc crashed while making */ /* xinput in the extensions */ #define HasSharedLibraries NO #define BuildServer NO /* no server installed because */ /* X accessed only from Sun */ /* workstations via network */ #define BuildExamples NO #define ExtraLibraries -lseq On top of that appropriate sequent entries were made in Imake.tmpl and imakemdep.h. site.def asked said: #define HasLargeTmp YES #define InstallOldHeaderFiles YES #define HasXwWidgets YES #define HasXcuWidgets YES apart from all the standard things which you can find in the vanilla site.def. I have defined in the sequent.cf "HasInputExtension NO", because the compiler crashed while trying to make xinput in extensions. The compilation then went smoothly with the exception of xdm, which requires that cript and setkey are available on the system which is not the case for the S27 running DYNIX. After installation I tested some of the programs and I have found that for instance xterm, and xload worked without problems. However xedit had problems. If called with a filename on the command line: xedit myfile it would crash immediately on clicking a mouse button in the main input window. If called simply by xedit it would crash sooner or later too, but only after a while and not always predictably. Running dbx on the core dump showed that alloca, and malloc were the last calls - these in turn originated from Xalloc and Xtalloc. Now the question is: what went wrong? Xperienced Sequent hackers, please, reply to the net and/or to me: gustav@arp.anu.oz.au Gustav Meglicki, Automated Reasoning Project, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia