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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
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Subject: Re:  Port of MIT X window system to Motorola System V/68
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Date: 14 Mar 91 18:48:16 GMT
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From: uunet!melpar!dsb (Don Berman)

> I am attempting to port the MIT X window system X11R4 to the Motorola
> MVME 147SA-1 cpu running UNIX System V/68 R3V5 and I'm not getting very
> far.  I made changes to imakemdep.h, imake.tmpl, and created an r3v5.cf
> file.  When trying to make World (and setting BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=-Dr3v5) I
> get a failure when trying to make the Makefile for /lib/Xau.  The error
> indicates an invalid syntax for an include file.  Help! Has anyone tried
> to do this port?  If so, were you successful?  And if successful, please
> tell me how you did this?  Also, I plan to port MOTIF. Any help there?
> 			Thanks, Don Berman (uunet!melpar!dsb)

I have done precisely this port (client side only, except for xmh [no
mh, after all] and xterm).   It was done on patch level 14, but I don't
think any patches since have affected it.

The base system I chose was the AT&T SystemV/386 Release 3.2 stuff in
the standard release, which I first tweaked to actually make and run on
the 386 (again, client-side only, xterm included).  I used
-DSTREAMSCONN, except that I used Streams pipes (which V/68 R3V5 has)
instead of Streams pseudo-ttys.  The lack of Streams pseudo-ttys is what
held up the xterm port, since the AT&T code depends on them;  it would
be easy enough to go in and change the lines in xterm that say "#ifdef
hpux" to "#if defined(hpux) || defined(MOTOROLA)", which is what I did in
other places where AT&T's code either didn't work on Motorola or had
never reached (such as xdm).

I have sent you my patch file separately, not echoing it to xpert, since
it's about 1000 lines.  I would appreciate any feedback, especially an
xterm patch or bug fixes.  Certainly if you find the patch incomplete,
let me know--I think I'm sending you the correct file, but it's been a
while.

If anyone else would like this, please write uunet!erik!rbrown, but
notice again, this is CLIENT ONLY.  Don't ask me for System V/386 or
V/68 servers.  Also, to forestall questions, it does not create shared
libraries.

Randy Brown (uunet!erik!rbrown)