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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: structure of include files in the R4 source tree
Message-ID: <90Jan10.084134est.2576@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <2773@goanna.oz.au>
Date: 10 Jan 90 13:41:53 GMT
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dmh@goanna.oz.au (Darren Hosking) writes:
>I assume the contributed clients would be buildable from the source tree
>(since we are still running R3 until R4 is completely built) as in R3, but
>it doesn't appear to be the case.

In general, for any X distribution so far, programs in the contrib
section for Release N have been tested only under Release N-1 since
many of those of us who contributed clients did not have R4 to test
them on, so any changes from R3 to R4 structure may well confuse
contrib clients. (In some cases, based on feedback from people who ran
R4beta, I made some fixes, but things got fixed even from R4beta to
R4, hence the xtroff problem)

If you want the contrib to compile, it may be better to #define
InstallOldHeaderFiles YES in your site.def (Default distribution
setting is NO) Of course, you can instead keep it at NO and fix all the
software that breaks, which is The Better Way but involves a tad more
work. (if you do the latter, many of us would be very grateful if you
posted the fixes)