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From: mansfiel@sapphire.sdr.slb.COM (Niall Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ICS tapes -- has anyone succeeded with them?
Message-ID: <8812122312.AA05884@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 16:08:00 GMT
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>   2) In core/X11 is a link named "sys" that points to /usr/include.  It
>   can't possibly work on a Sun unless that link points to
>   /usr/include/sys.  Further, I don't see why it exists at all.

I had exactly the same trouble.  I rang ICS and they assured me the tapes
were identical to the MIT distribution, but obviously they are not.  They
said they'd get a software guy to ring back -- that was over a week ago ...

The Problem:
	core/X11/sys is a symbolic link to /usr/include/sys.  This causes
	circular #include's, and compilation bombs with "too deeply nested" crap.

The Solution
	Get rid of the the symbolic link, and put the real files in
	core/X11/sys, i.e.
		rm core/X11/sys
		mkdir core/X11/sys
		cp /usr/include/sys/* core/X11/sys
	(This may not be exact - I'm not at my own machine and can't check
	the precise filenames as they were distributed).

PS:  The ICS printed docs didn't include Xlib -- were they part of the MIT release?