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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 make problem with mkfontdir
Message-ID: <9104081724.AA25578@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:24:17 GMT
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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    I am trying to install X11R4 on a sun computer.  I am on a sun 3/50
    with SunOs 4.1.1 and am using gcc 1.39.  I downloaded X from
    giza.cis.ohio-state.edu and applied all 18 patches that are there.

    The entire make runs successfully with the exception of the mkfontdir
    command.

In R4, mkfontdir must be compiled static.  When you use gcc, it doesn't
recognize the -Bstatic option, so you don't get static linking.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium