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From: dpm@cs.cmu.edu (David Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: GCC for X11R4 clients
Keywords: X11R4, GCC, -fwritable-strings
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Date: 20 Mar 90 19:19:33 GMT
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Has anyone generated a list of R4 client (and demo/example) programs
that need to be compiled with the -fwritable-strings option of GCC.  So
far I've identified xterm and puzzle (which would occasionally dump
core), but the other clients I've tested appear to work fine.  I read in
the (outdated) X11.README that came with GCC that twm might need
writable strings, but it "seems" to work without them.  I'm working with
GCC 1.37.1 on a Sun-2 under SunOS 3.5 with MIT fixes 1-6.

On the same subject...what is the "best" way to specify special compiler
options for a particular client?  My quick and dirty way was to specify
an explicit "CC = gcc..." line in the appropriate Imakefiles.  That
obviously isn't the best way to specify things since it won't
automatically pick up global changes I make to the compiler options.

P.S. I'm impressed!  The R4 "make World" only took ~19 hours on a 4 meg
Sun-2/120.  If I recall correctly, the R3 compile took closer to 25 hours.

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 David P. Maynard (dpm@cs.cmu.edu)
 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA  15213
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