Subject: Re: Enabling SysV IPC API in XFree86
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/10/2003 01:30:40
In article <87y90aah6o.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
>About a month ago, Quentin sent this to the list. Did we ever get any
>consensus on it?
>
>Perry
Let's commit it.
christos
>
>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.
>>
>
>--
>Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com