home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!dgdhome!dgdhom2!tmchome!tchal
- From: tchal@tmchome.UUCP (Thomas M. Chalfant)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Compiling X11R4
- Keywords: X11R4
- Message-ID: <2g4kwB1w165w@tmchome.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 02:18:12 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: My house
- Lines: 36
-
- Fellow netters:
-
- I am experiencing some problems getting the standard MIT X11R4 distribution to
- compile with no errors. Could someone offer some help? Here's a synopsis
- of our setup.
-
- Sun Server running SunOs 4.1.2, standard MIT X11R4 distribution. I rlogin to
- the server from my workstation, change to the appropriate directory and issue
- 'make World >& make.world'
- as instructed in the install docs. This is after making changes to the
- site.def, etc.; and after applying patches 1-18. All patches seemed to apply
- fine with the exception of one patch that was being applied to the IBM server
- code (which I will not be using anyway). Hence I ignored this problem.
-
- After looking at make.world, it has a bunch of errors when compiling the
- client programs. The errors have to do with ld and a bunch of undefined
- symbols mostly with names of Intrinisics functions prepended with an
- underscore. However, some of these same programs seem to run just fine with
- casual observance.
-
- By the way, there is a vendor's X11R4 distribution already installed on the
- server in the default location. I desire to no longer use the vendor supplied
- version for various reasons (no source, not all patches applied, etc.), and
- would also like to install X in other than the default location to make
- upgrades easier in the future, and to facilitate having more than one version
- available for testing purposes, etc.
-
- Also, I intend to compile OSF Motif next, and again would like to install
- this in other than the default location to facilitate having multiple versions
- for testing, etc.
-
- Does anyone have any suggestions for me to try? I am open to anyone's
- comments.
-
- Thanks,
- Tom
-