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From: dgreen@monet.watson.ibm.com (Dan Greening)
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Subject: Re: X11R4 under HP-UX 7.0
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Date: 2 Mar 90 18:58:40 GMT
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mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) writes in comp.windows.x:

> 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
> 
> (from lib/Xt/Alloc.c)
> There should be plenty of swap space (the 6.5 built clients work in the
> same circumstances).
> 
> The only thing I changed (apart from the operating system :-) was in
> config/hp.cf change the OSName etc to:
> #define OSName                 HP-UX 7.0
> #define OSMajorVersion         7
> #define OSMinorVersion         0
> 
> Any ideas what is going on?
> 
> cheers
> mark

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.

It was the only helpful response I've received.  HP techs told me "gosh,
I thought everything worked in HP 7.0 :-)" and that was about it.
I have not been able to test this solution, since I am now physically
distant from the HP machines I help administer.  

IF THE ABOVE METHOD SOLVES THE "Cannot perform realloc" PROBLEM, COULD
SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY E-MAIL?  Thanks.

Dan R. Greening		12 Foster Court			NY (914) 789-7860
dgreen@cs.ucla.edu	Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520	CA (213) 825-2266