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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:6821 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1874 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Has anybody built XFree86-2.0 on NetBSD-current (Jan 2)? Date: 25 Jan 1994 09:50:26 GMT Organization: Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2i2q12$nj@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <2h97qe$of1@aspen.plexus.com> <BLYMN.94Jan23181259@siren.awadi.com.au> Reply-To: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de In article <BLYMN.94Jan23181259@siren.awadi.com.au>, blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn (master of the siren)) writes: >>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Reynolds <scottr@news.plexus.com> writes: >In article <2h97qe$of1@aspen.plexus.com> scottr@news.plexus.com (Scott Reynolds) writes: > > >Scott> When I try to compile a new server, I ran across two files that >Scott> appar- ently were, but are no longer, in the >Scott> /usr/include/machine directory: ioctl_pc.h and console.h. OK, >Scott> no problem, I do have a machine/pccons.h, and it solves most of >Scott> the problems. Then I get to server/ddx/ >Scott> x386/common/x386Events.c, and the build fails because I don't >Scott> have an ioctl(..., VT_ACTIVATE, ...). If I understand it >Scott> correctly, the code allows support for multiple virtual >Scott> displays if the OS supports it. > >I had the same problem. Eventually I found the files in >server/ddx/x386/etc, I installed the files in the place that XFree >expected them and it compiled without a problem. Maybe this should be >in the FAQ???? > May be this should be in the mit/Makefile (for XFree86), because /usr/include/machine will be rebuild if one rebuilds the NetBSD source tree (specifically /usr/src/include) and any links will be lost. Anyway, it doesn't look very nice if any application (like X11:-) puts a file into a system (OS) directory. :-( >-- >Brett Lymn > Henry -- juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.12] (internet) juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.30] saph2::juengst [13.259] (decnet) Any opinions in this mail are my own.