Subject: Re: XFree86 4.5.0 build confusion on Alpha
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 04/04/2005 12:06:53
On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:27:09PM -0800, David Hopper wrote:
>> That's the source of my confusion.  build.sh -x does not provide an
>> XFree86 server binary on Alpha, only XdecNetBSD and XalphaNetBSD.
>> 'make World && make install' builds and installs all three servers:
>> XFree86, XdecNetBSD and XalphaNetBSD.
>
> That's a bug in "src/x11" then. Would you please submit a PR in
> category "xsrc"? And please include build logs from "xsrc" building
> that server.

This has been assigned PR xsrc/29882

I don't think the (huge) build logs will be necessary, as there is no 
real error condition.  The solution should lie in 
src/x11/Xserver/Makefile.common:

--- src/x11/Xserver/Makefile.common.orig        2005-04-01 
12:39:08.000000000 -0800
+++ src/x11/Xserver/Makefile.common     2005-04-01 12:44:07.000000000 
-0800
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
  # XFree86 servers all need XFONT as well.
  .if ${MACHINE} == "i386" || ${MACHINE} == "amd64" || \
      ${MACHINE} == "macppc" || ${MACHINE} == "cats" || \
-    ${MACHINE} == "sgimips" || ${MACHINE} == "sparc64"
+    ${MACHINE} == "sgimips" || ${MACHINE} == "sparc64" || \
+    ${MACHINE} == "alpha"
  XSERVER_NEEDS_XFONT=   yes
  XSERVER_NEEDS_MIEXT=   yes
  XSERVER_XFREE86=       yes

>
> 	Kind regards
>
> -- 
> Matthias Scheler                                  
> http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>

Dave