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From: william@castle.ed.ac.uk (William Warburton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Problems building X11R4 on sequent s2000, DYNIX/ptx
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Date: 24 Apr 91 10:54:47 GMT
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Reply-To: william@castle.ed.ac.uk (William Warburton)
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Hi,
	I am trying to build X11R4 on our new sequent and I am having problems
with some library routines that are used in the streams code. I have defined
STREAMS_CONN in the X config files in order to persuade X that it doesn't have
a socket library to play with and I get failures with these three-

./clients/xterm/main.c
1376:           grantpt (screen->respond);
1377:           unlockpt (screen->respond);
1378:           if ((ptyfd = open (ptsname(screen->respond), O_RDWR)) < 0) {
./util/att-nameserver/xdaemon.c
191:    grantpt(munix);
192:    unlockpt(munix);
200:    slave = (char *) ptsname(munix);
./lib/X/Xstreams.c
267:    grantpt(munix);
268:    unlockpt(munix);
276:    slave = (char *) ptsname(munix);
438:    grantpt (fd);
440:    unlockpt (fd);
442:    slave = (char *) ptsname (fd);

 I can't find any references to these three calls (which the X distribution
seems to take for granted). If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.
 I tried phoning Sequent's hotline (UK) and was advised that they didn't have
much experience of DYNIX/ptx, that I should read the manuals and that my best
approach would probably be to use their BSD pseudoterminal handling routines
on top of the streams. Does this seem like good advice? It wasn't really what
I wanted to hear :-(.

Thanks,
	W.