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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Installing X on Sun 4/280, OS (Sys4-) 3.2
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Date: 7 Apr 89 14:31:39 GMT
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> [problems installing R3 on an ancient operating system (SunOS Sys4-3.2 :-)]

Yup, there are a few places where Sys4-3.2 has the same problems as SunOS 4.0
(I'm not sure if the SunOS 4.0 support was only tested on the Sun4 or not; if
it was, then many of the places that look for OSMajorVersion >= 4 are really
SparcArchitecture bugs).  You'll need to look for workarounds for SunOS 4.0 in
the various Imakefiles and patch them to also deal with the sparc.  I'd
recommend doing this by adding the following lines to
util/imake.includes/Sun.macros:

    #ifdef sparc
    #undef sparc
    #define SparcArchitecture
    #endif

and then fixing the various Imakefiles that have links like

    #if defined(SunArchitecture) && SunOSPlatform && OSMajorVersion >= 4

to look more like

    #if defined(SunArchitecture) && SunOSPlatform && defined(SparcArchitecture)

and then send context diffs to xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu.