Subject: Re: Color X Server for NetBSD 2.0.2
To: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/30/2005 01:10:50
At 17:49 Uhr -0500 29.10.2005, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>Hauke Fath wrote:
>> That's going to be tricky since 1.4 was a.out while 1.6 was the first
>> NetBSD/mac68k release to use ELF as binary format.
>
>I know.  But I thought older binaries could still be run if there were
>some compatibility libraries in place?

I suppose so. But I do not know whether this extends to X11 and the X server.

>> (successfully running greyscale X on a netbsd-2 Quadra 700)
>
>How?  I thought the standard X server was 1-bit on the Mac.  Did you get
>the color X server to build under 2?

No. But the 1.6 ELF build still works:

[hauke@q700] ~ > ll /usr/X11R6/bin/X
0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17 Jun 26 14:48 /usr/X11R6/bin/X ->
Xmac68k_elf_color
[hauke@q700] ~ > ll /usr/X11R6/bin/Xmac68k_elf_color
1848 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1879696 Jun 12  2002
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xmac68k_elf_color
[hauke@q700] ~ >

The binary should be somewhere on ftp.netbsd.org.

	hauke

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