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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Installing X on Sun 4/280, OS (Sys4-) 3.2
Keywords: problems, Sun 4, Sun OS 3.2
Message-ID: <98087@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 23:12:11 GMT
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In article <29388@sri-unix.SRI.COM> ellis@unix.sri.com (Michael Ellis) writes:
>Is it even possible to install X on a Sun4 running "Sys4-3.2", or am I
>beating my head against the wall? Is it wiser to throw in the towel and tell my
>users they're stuck with SunWindows until a stable version of 4.0 is available?

Not only is it possible, but it has been done.  I did it myself in
about 4-5 days (that includeded bringing up all the applications, core
+ contrib).  I run it daily - the only thing that's a drag is that the
X libs haven't been made into shared libs so binaries are mondo big.

I think the only prob I had was with something in some library (xt?)
that worked when I used cc but not when I used cc -O.  If you have to
know what it was I could find out.

Larry McVoy, Lachman Associates.			...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com