kakazu@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gary Kakazu) (02/23/90)
For grins I tried pulling down the distribution for XR4 off of
expo.lcs.mit.edu and tried compiling it on my RT running AIX 2.2.
I did my best to customize the config files for my system, but
after several tries, I still don't have anything that I am
confident of.
Has anyone out there in netland successfully installed XR4 on their RT?
Here are some obvious problems I have run into:
1. ERRATA.Jan19 says that the server won't work on an RT running AIX 2.2
Has anyone been able to fix this?
2. Most of the clients I start up come back with the message:
Warning: Cannot convert string "*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" to ty
pe FontStruct
Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font
I have installed all the fonts in the distribution. Do I need to be
running the server before using these clients?
3. What are the proper ways to set up the config files for painless compilation?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) (02/23/90)
In article <9776@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, kakazu@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gary Kakazu) writes: > Has anyone out there in netland successfully installed XR4 on their RT? Well sort of... > Here are some obvious problems I have run into: > > 1. ERRATA.Jan19 says that the server won't work on an RT running AIX 2.2 > Has anyone been able to fix this? The latest word from MIT is that IBM did not submit an X11R4 server and does not have any plans to support one for the IBM RT. That's the bad news; the good news is that the libaries and client programs all compile fine, so all you really loose are the server extensions. > 2. Most of the clients I start up come back with the message: > Warning: Cannot convert string "*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" to ty > pe FontStruct > Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font What you need is a beefed up fonts.alias file in /usr/lpp/fonts to translate these ISO names back to the original font file names, i.e.: *-...-* ncenR14 I have a complete one for the fonts with the X11R4 distribution that I have been making available internally, but will send it by request (it doesn't handle the older fonts of the X11R3 distribution like the new century fonts, but I am working on that as well). > 3. What are the proper ways to set up the config files for painless compilation? The imake config file ibm.cf(?) has the AIX 2.2.1 stuff defined, just hand imake -DRtArchitecture and -Daix (or something to that effect). Ron -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan @cs.utexas.edu:romp!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + + second choice: woan@peyote.cactus.org +