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In article <1993Jul4.001422.27127@news.csuohio.edu> thx1139@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (thx) writes:
>I am getting the above irritating message when attempting to build
>X11R5 [see subject]. It happens right from the start, after I do:
>% make World >& world.log

More information about this problem, in case anyone cares:
======================================================================
%uname -a
ULTRIX decserver 4.0 0 RISC
======================================================================

Also, the specific thing that is failing is imake. It puts a bunch of
zeros at the end of the Makefile in the mit directory, causing 'make'
to bomb immediately:
======================================================================
./config/imake -I./config  -DTOPDIR=. -DCURDIR=.
make -w Makefiles
make[2]: Entering directory `/cad/applic/X/mit'
Makefile:509: *** NUL not allowed in makefile.  Stop.
======================================================================

I am almost sure that the problem is with Ultrix 4.0 cpp, since I am
able to build R5 under SunOS.

However, the man page for imake says that an environment variable
IMAKECPP can be used to point to the cpp of one's choice. I set it
to point to the cpp which is way down in the arch-dependent tree
of our gcc-2.4.5, and it *still* fails. :(


Questions:

1) Is the cpp that gets installed for gcc just a copy of the native cpp?

2) Is imake really using IMAKECPP? It didn't seem to make _any_
   difference at all.

3) Could it be some sort of Ultrix 4.0 filesystem problem (this
   busineses of adding extra zero's to the Makefile)?

4) When I tried to build it on the sparc, I got way past the Makefile
   problems, but there were other errors, including "-assert not
   found" from ld. I built gnu-ld, and it's in my path before the
   native ld. Was this a mistake? The man page for the native ld
   mentions the -assert switch, which is apparently unknown to gnu-ld.

5) Has anybody built X on Ultrix 4.0 and lived to remember what trix
   they had to pull?

6) Has anybody even gotten imake to work on Ultrix 4.0?

I will accept help from anyone who knows anything about this. I don't
need X on the SunOS. I need it on Ultrix, and I don't know when the
sysadmin is going to upgrade us to 4.3, or if that will even fix the
problem.

thanks in advance,
tim