Subject: Re: Enabling SysV IPC API in XFree86
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/09/2003 20:51:11
About a month ago, Quentin sent this to the list. Did we ever get any
consensus on it?

Perry

Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> NVidia's binary driver needs working IPC routines to run (so even XFree86
> 4.3.0 needs patching, no matter what I said before).
> 
> Although it was a hack for XFree86 4.2.1, since some #ifdef'ing was needed
> inside the source, it is very easy for 4.3.0.
> 
> I'd like very much to see this patch committed. Could there be any reason
> not to activate support for SysV IPC services in XFree86 ?
> 
> [I reformatted the diff a bit.]
> 
> Index: xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile
> diff -u -r1.12 Imakefile
> --- xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile.orig
> +++ xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
>  MTRRDEFINES = -DHAS_MTRR_BUILTIN
>  #endif
>  
> -#if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture)
> +#if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture) || defined(NetBSDArchitecture)
>  SYSVIPCDEFINES = -DHAVE_SYSV_IPC
>  #endif
>  
> 
> -- 
> Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net
> "Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
> Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
> Leigh Nash/Sixpence None The Richer, Paralyzed, Divine Discontents, 2002.
> 

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