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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help requested with server recompile
Date: 24 May 1997 21:40:38 GMT
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Jack <harpoMARX@javanet.com> wrote:

> Due to the fact that I don't have the speediest of machines (a 486 with
> 16 mb of ram), I've been trying to reduce the size of my SVGA server

That won't help you though.  You forget that unix binaries are being
demand-paged, that is, you basically don't load the unnecessary parts
of the binary at all.  So don't expect too much from rebuilding the
server.

> 	When I run "make" in /usr/X11R6/lib/Server, the compile
> generally bombs due to an inclusion of lgnumalloc.

It's not needed anyway.  Make the FreeBSD.cf file correctly specifying
your operating system version.  For FreeBSD >= 2.2, libgnumalloc is
not supposed to be used at all, but the older XFree86 releases
(including 3.2) accidentally hardwired the FreeBSD version in the .cf
file.

After this, you need to update the Makefiles though:

	cd /usr/X11R6/lib/Server
	make Makefile
	make Makefiles

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)