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From: bir7@portia.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: X11
Message-ID: <10498@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 90 19:08:36 GMT
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In article <6734@turnkey.TCC.COM> jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM writes:
>In article <1990Mar23.200144.19010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brando@uiucme2.UUCP (Brando W. Brown) writes:
>>In article <834@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> jsnyder@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Jay Snyder) writes:
>>>Has anyone ported it to any i386 platform??
>>>
>>.... because I get all kinds of errors in the compilation stage of the
>>servers.

Under ESIX, I have been able to compile the R4 sources (I haven't tried
any of the ibm vga servers yet.)  The only problems I had with Imake and
makedepend were that I had to define a BOOTSTRAPCFLAG and that I had to
manually define USG in one of them.

Once all the clients are compiled, theoretically they should work with
the R3 server that comes with ESIX, but I haven't been able to get them
to work yet; there are some differences between the way sockets work on
ESIX and on BSD systems.

As far as the server goes, I would suggest starting with the cfb, mfb
rather than using ibm's vga.  They have all sorts of aix specific stuff
in them, and they're from ibm. 8-)

If enough people are willing to work on this, it should be possible to
come up with a "generic" SYSV/386:vga port of R4.

	Ross Biro bir7@portia.stanford.edu