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From: bobm@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bob May)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 under HP-UX 7.0
Message-ID: <100920183@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 2 Mar 90 16:55:45 GMT
References: <1990Mar1.220422.19821@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Has anyone build R4 under HP-UX 7.0 on a series 300 machine?
> Everything built and worked fine under 6.5.
> Under 7.0 everything builds without complaint (except for warnings because
> SIGCHLD is now defined in signal.h), the server works, some of the clients
> work, but other clients (notably xterm, xman, xcalc, xdm) fail immediately
> with the message:
> 
> Cannot perform realloc
> 
> Any ideas what is going on?

There's a bug in the hp.cf file on the standard distribution bits. The
compiler flag MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL must be defined if you are using
the standard libc malloc package. If you don't, you see the realloc errors.
Try adding -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL to the compile line for the Xt
code, and recompile Alloc.c. This should help you.

Yes, the bug's been submitted to MIT...

> cheers
> mark

    Bob May
    Hewlett-Packard
    Interface Technology Operation
    bobm@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com