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