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Re: X386 1.2 and X11R5 on SCO

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From: Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 01:12
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In article <1992Jan12.121737.14962@trevan.uucp> trevor@trevan.uucp writes:
>
>I have been trying to build X386 1.2 from the X11R5 distribution on SCO
>Open Desktop. There were several minor problems with include files but
>I have found two major ones.
>
>1) x386Init.c trys to open a new virtual terminal /dev/vt00 or /dev/vc00
>   which dont exist on SCO. X386 1.1b used ttyname to get the terminal but
>   this seems to return null on 1.2.

Try linking without -lx, or at least -lc before -lx.  The -lx library has
some rotuines with calling parameters different from their libc namesakes.

>
>2) The new PEX code uses itimer which does not seem exist on SCO.

I've been able to use nap() to fudge around itimer stuff.

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