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From: bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9: Building Xfree86-1.3 from source?
Date: 6 Sep 1993 20:05:24 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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In article <MIKE.93Sep6123003@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu>, mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel) writes:
|> I have been trying to build XFree86-1.3 from source under NetBSD 0.9.
|> My machine is an EISA 486 with a wd90c31 video chip on the motherboard.
|> I am running the generic "ahbbt" kernel from the NetBSD 0.9 distribution
|> floppy; I have not yet configured my own kernel.  The distribution kernel
|> appears to have XSERVER configured in.
|> 
|> Unfortunately, the stock XFree source distribution does not compile.
|> The problem lies in various server/ddx/x386/common files which expect an
|> #include file called <sys/ioctl_pc.h> to exist.

This file comes whith Xfree1.3 :
.../mit/server/ddx/x386/etc/ioctl_pc.h
You have to put it in /usr/include/sys before compiling Xfree. This may be solve
your problems ...

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Manuel Bouyer
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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