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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: compiling X11 Date: 20 Feb 1994 12:50:38 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 20 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <199402201850.NAA11210@freenet.buffalo.edu> Reply-To: ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu >In article <CHARNIER.94Feb14180027@hpdif1.lirmm.fr>, >Philippe Charnier <charnier@lirmm.fr> wrote: >>I tried to compile X11R5 (pl25 + Xfree2.0) on my FreeBSD 1.0.2 >>machine. It failed in the mit/rgb directory because of dbm.h >>which doesn't exist. > >Umm, XFree86 2.0 doesn't need dbm.h, so your distribution must be a bit >corrupted. Are you *sure* it's version 2.0 and not 1.X? I compiled XFree 1.3 on 386bsd 0.1, and it crashed at the same place. The reason is that *BSD uses 'ndbm' instead of just 'dbm'. You have to alter your site.def to say that. Good Luck -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher L. Mikkelson ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu Student, Menomonie High School ap713@yfn.ysu.edu Desperately in search of a Non-Channel-One School...