jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (08/28/90)
Archive-name: sgi-x11r4/28-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) Original-subject: Unblessed patches for SGI/IRIX 3.3 (was Re: X11 R4 on SGI) Archive-site: fresnel.stanford.edu [36.10.0.77] Archive-directory: /pub/4DX Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Has anyone ported the Client X11 R4 to the SGI? I know that I can get X from SGI. I want to muck with the sources, so I need to be able to rebuild the code. I only encountered a few minor problems in compiling MIT's X11R4 distribution (clients + libraries only, *no server code available*) under IRIX. Most of the SGI specific stuff is already on the R4 tape, courtesy of SGI. Back in April, I posted some patches to fix a few things (xload, ptys for xterm, makedepend) for compiling under IRIX 3.2. Those patches are available for anonymous ftp from fresnel.stanford.edu, pub/4DX/4DX-patch1. The new patches, which make a few minor adjustments for IRIX 3.3, are in pub/4DX/4DX-patch2. 4DX-patch1 must be applied before 4DX-patch2. Some R4 binaries, libraries, and include files are also on fresnel. These patches should be applied to X11R4 from MIT with at least fixes 1 thru 6 applied. MIT fixes 7 thru 12 do not affect any of same files, so it shouldn't matter whether you have applied them or not. I most recently compiled R4 with MIT fixes 1 thru 12 under IRIX 3.3. CAVEAT COMPILOR: Unless you're looking for free libraries or want to muck around with the R4 client source, you're probably better off with the libraries from SGI's X Development tape and with the clients on the standard IRIX 3.3 tapes, for one thing, SGI's IRIX 3.3 clients use a shared libX11, which the R4 distribution does not. Note however that you still can't create clients which use the shared library, since the X Development tape does not include libX11_s.a (only libX11_s). BUGS: Once, I encountered a problem with pty allocation under 3.3 but have been unable to duplicate it. There are known server problems when drawing 1-bit images onto 8-bit windows with XPutImage, e.g. xwud. All of these patches are completely unblessed. Most of it has only been tested on a 4D/220. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Voice: (415) 723-9127