Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:19322 comp.sys.hp:4498 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz!mark From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: X11R4 under HP-UX 7.0 Message-ID: <1990Mar4..3633@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 4 Mar 90 04:22:50 GMT References: <1990Mar1.220422.19821@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1990Mar2.185840.24495@arnor.uucp> Sender: news@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 27 I write about X clients failing under HP-UX 7.0 with: Cannot perform realloc In article <1990Mar2.185840.24495@arnor.uucp> dgreen@cs.ucla.edu writes: >This is exactly the problem I had. A similar problem was reported to me >by a colleague at Washington State University. I posted a request for >help to comp.sys.hp about three weeks ago. I received this response from >Kris Olander, who runs on a 9000/340: >> I've compiled X11R4 (with patched through fix-2) with very few >> difficulties. I wasn't able to startup X fresh from compiling until >> I made /usr/bin/X a soft link to /usr/bin/Xhp, chmod 2755 on Xhp,xterm, >> and xload, and finally, chgrp sys Xhp,xterm,xload. >IF THE ABOVE METHOD SOLVES THE "Cannot perform realloc" PROBLEM, COULD >SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY E-MAIL? Thanks. No it doesn't. The correct fix came from Bob May in article <100920183@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> in comp.windows.x. Seems under 7.0 you need to define MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL. I did this and everything now works smoothly. cheers mark