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From: pfh@pai.UUCP (Peter Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11.2 on the Sun386i
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Date: 11 Nov 88 00:46:10 GMT
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X11R2 came right up on our Sun 386i-RR150-8X-FC (color, 8meg) under SunOS4.0.
All I changed was the destination directories, i.e. /usr/lib became
/usr/local/lib.  Now I think that was a mistake; for X11R3 I left them
alone, and made soft links from /usr/lib/X11 to /usr/local/lib/X11, and so on.

[By the way:  I didn't RTFM for SunOS 4.0 and was surprised that I couldn't
create my soft links in the /usr filesystem; it's mounted read-only.  It
turns out that "mount -o remount,rw /usr" will give you read-write access.
Just in case others out there don't RTFM, too.]

I recommend X11R3 over X11R2.  I think it's simpler to install (or the
documentation is better, or both).  I also had strange R2 client problems
with my Sun 3/160M (SunOS 3.2) that I never could track down.  For R3, I
created a "shadow" directory for each architecture (util/scripts/lndir.sh);
made a new util/imake.includes/Sun.macros in each; compiled; and installed.
The lintless R3 install is much faster (thanks, guys).

There were a couple glitches during the R3 install.  (One:  you still need
write access to /usr/lib *as well as* /usr/lib/X11 for the install,
contradicting the README file.  Two:  if you generate X11 in an NFS-mounted
filesystem, *and* you try to install on the local machine as root, "ranlib"
will fail; its temp file goes in the current working directory, and root
can't write in an NFS-mounted filesystem.]

R2 and R3 performance seem to be about the same on the color Roadrunner.
But then, Suntools 4.0 isn't all that great, either....

I like R3; thanks to all those in the X consortium.

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Peter Hill                          pfh@pai.mn.org             +1 612 894 0313
Prime Automation, Inc.              ...{sun!tundra,umn-cs!hall,bungia}!pai!pfh