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From: pd@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Paul Davison [postmaster])
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R3 and Gcc 1.37.1
Message-ID: <2990@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Oct 90 11:39:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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I have just [overnight] recompiled X11R3 with the Gnu C compiler,
gcc-1.37.1. However I now have a bad X11. Can anyone throw any
light on the problem?

"xinit" results in the messages:
        Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket
        sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device
        sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device

        Fatal server bug!
        Can't find any displays

        giving up.
        xinit:  Connection refused (errno 61):  unable to connect to X server


Compilation switches were:

CC = gcc -fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce -finline-functions \
        -fpcc-struct-return -DPURDUE -Dinline=INLINE \
        -DNOSTDHDRS

Host is a Sun 3/280 running SunOS 4.0.3.

I had to make a few minor changes to the source to allow gcc to work.
For example, I had to edit ~/util/makedepend/main.c to change definition
of catch() from
        #ifdefined (ultrix)
        void catch();
        #else
        int catch();
        #endif
to
        #ifdefined (ultrix)
            void catch ();
        #else
        #    ifdef sun
                void catch ();
        #    else
                int catch ();
        #    endif
        #endif

During compilation, I got no errors, and the only warnings were about
        i. functions implicitly declared external redeclared static
        ii. useless keywords
Both are ok.

Running my old [Sun cc compiled] X11R3, I still can't run any of my new
clients. For example, I get:
        gav% xlogo
        XIO:  fatal IO error 45 (Operation not supported on socket) on X server
"gav:0.0"
              after 30 requests (17 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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