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From: grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R3 & ultrix 2.2
Message-ID: <26900055@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 88 16:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald    Dec  5 10:59:00 1988


We have a vax-station 3200 running ultrix 2.2 and X11R3.

I have two questions.

(1) I've tried to compile X11 using gcc V 1.31, and while everything
    compiles (after 1 change), everything gives me X I/O errors,
    which are related to compiling Xlib with gcc. When I recompile Xlib,
    many more things work.

    The change I made was in file lib/X/Xlibint.h, routine GetReqExtra,
    in the #ifdef used by the ANSI/Gnu C pre-processor.

    There were several calls to SIZEOF(*), which gets translated into
    s_*p. I changed that definition to model the one used by the ``normal''
    cpp, substituting ## instead of /**/

    Has anyone else gotten this to work? Gnu C V 1.31 is 30% faster than
    pcc & about 10% faster than VCC, the VMS C compiler. I'd like to have
    the server & toolkits use it.

(2) We're using XDM, and while I'm generally pleased with it, I've not been
    able to figure out how to get console output to go to a window. I'm not
    a big Ultrix mavin, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I've looked
    at ``xcons'', but I can't seem to get it to do anything useful. Clues?

Dirk Grunwald
Univ. of Illinois
grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu