[comp.windows.x] X11R3 installation woes

mathieu@yunexus.UUCP (Pierre Mathieu) (08/17/89)

Well, I just recently got fed up with not being able 
to compile any X11 software on our HP 9000 (series 350
running HPUX 6.2 and X11 Windows provided by HP) so
I decided to get the X11R3 release from MIT and try
compiling and installing it on our machine. Lo and 
behold, the compilation went down without a hitch.
HOWEVER, when I tried running 'make install', I got the 
unpleasant (to say the very least, after 4 hours of
compilation) surprise (yeah, I know, I should have looked more
carefully) that X11R3 required (at least as defined 
in the hpux.macros file) a BSD-compatible 'install' program
which in this case was called 'bsdinstall'. What I want to
know is where to get this program (if it is available 
anywhere) or, failing this, suggestions on how to remedy
this sorry state of affairs with a minimum amount of 
hard labor. 

	Thanks in advance to any kind soul with useful
suggestions,


P.S.: No I don't want to wait for HPUX 7.0 which is supposed
      to include X11R3 because of time considerations and also
      because our software upgrade contract ran out a short 
      while ago.


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Pierre Mathieu            
CRESS, York University,  
Ontario, Canada         
mathieu@nexus.yorku.ca 

jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (08/18/89)

    I got the  unpleasant (to say the very least, after 4 hours of compilation)
    surprise (yeah, I know, I should have looked more carefully) that X11R3
    required (at least as defined  in the hpux.macros file) a BSD-compatible
    'install' program which in this case was called 'bsdinstall'.

Look in util/scripts/bsdinst.sh