Re: Xorg, XFree on netbsd/alpha

[Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>]

What is more netbsd-alpha has a kernel security level 1 by default.
You need to recompile kernel with less security level too (-1 as I
remember) because Xorg can't run with higher levels.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> I was able to build modular-xorg some time ago however on startx
> netbsd was crashing immediately. So Xorg was unusable  for me in the
> end. You need to add -lalpha in Makefile if you want to build Xorg at
> all. About these errors you probably need to look how those functions
> are defined. Also there were some diffs in the groups from some other
> person who managed to build and run it too
> (http://old.nabble.com/X.org-1.3.0-server-on-NetBSD-alpha-td13057190.html).
> It can be as reference point too.
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Robert Dörfler <rodo%zlug.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> Am 20.09.2011 21:33, schrieb Manuel Bouyer:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:52:11AM +0200, Robert Dörfler wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i just installed NetBSD5.1 on my AlphaPC 164LX some days ago.When i was
>>>> starting X i realized that its not the usual xorg/xfree86.Its
>>>> XdecNetBSD. I'm just wondering why its included on the
>>>> iso-distribution.
>>>> Isnt there an usual xorg/xfree86 package around for alpha?
>>>
>>> By default the alpha port still uses the old XFree86 tree, but you
>>> should be able to rebuild from source with X11FLAVOUR=Xorg
>>> (I did use it when I still had a working alpha XP1000)
>>
>> Its been some while. If i try to build Xorg it stops compiling at
>> "/usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/libpciaccess" with:
>>
>> ERROR: This package is only available for these platforms: FreeBSD-*-i386
>> NetBSD-*-i386 OpenBSD-*-i386 FreeBSD-*-x86_64 NetBSD-*-x86_64
>> OpenBSD-*-x86_64 DragonFly-*-i386 DragonFly-*-x86_64 Linux-*-* SunOS-*-*
>> NetBSD-*-sparc64.
>> ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
>> ERROR: libpciaccess-0.11.0nb1 is not available for NetBSD-5.1_STABLE-alpha
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> So, i tried to add NetBSD-*-alpha as platform in the Makefile and
>> libpciaccess will build with a few warnings knowing that this will
>> surely will crash later. So, i tried to build modular-xorg-server
>> which will end here:
>>
>> alpha_video.c:44:21: error: xf86Axp.h: No such file or directory
>> alpha_video.c:59: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
>> before 'bsdGetAXP'
>> libtool: compile:  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../include
>> -I../../../../hw/xfree86 -I../../../../hw/xfree86/include
>> -I../../../../hw/xfree86/common -I../../../../hw/xfree86/os-support
>> -I../../../../hw/xfree86/os-support/bus -I../../../../os
>> -I/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/.buildlink/include
>> -I/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/.buildlink/include/freetype2
>> -DUSESTDRES -DHAVE_XORG_CONFIG_H -DHAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H -Wall -Wpointer-arith
>> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
>> -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -D_REENTRANT -D_BSD_SOURCE
>> -DHAS_FCHOWN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT
>> -I/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/.buildlink/include/pixman-1
>> -I../../../../Xext -I../../../../composite -I../../../../damageext
>> -I../../../../xfixes -I../../../../Xi -I../../../../mi
>> -I../../../../miext/shadow -I../../../../miext/damage -I../../../../render
>> -I../../../../randr -I../../../../fb -O2 -pipe -mieee -MT bsd_axp.lo -MD -MP
>> -MF .deps/bsd_axp.Tpo -c bsd_axp.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/bsd_axp.o
>>
>>
>> After fixing that, i got:
>>
>> misym.c:127: warning: 'miPointerAbsoluteCursor' is deprecated (declared at
>> ../../../mi/mipointer.h:126)xf86sym.c:702: error: 'outw' undeclared here
>> (not in a function)
>> xf86sym.c:703: error: 'outb' undeclared here (not in a function)
>> xf86sym.c:704: error: 'outl' undeclared here (not in a function)
>> xf86sym.c:705: error: 'inb' undeclared here (not in a function)
>> xf86sym.c:706: error: 'inw' undeclared here (not in a function)
>> xf86sym.c:707: error: 'inl' undeclared here (not in a function)
>>
>> misym.c:128: warning: 'miPointerCurrentScreen' is deprecated (declared at
>> ../../../mi/mipointer.h:131)gmake[4]: *** [xf86sym.o] Error 1
>>
>> misym.c:130: warning: 'miPointerWarpCursor' is deprecated (declared at
>> ../../../mi/mipointer.h:111)
>> gmake[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> mv -f .deps/misym.Tpo .deps/misym.Po
>> mv -f .deps/loadmod.Tpo .deps/loadmod.Po
>> gmake[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/xorg-server-1.6.5/hw/xfree86/loader'
>> gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/xorg-server-1.6.5/hw/xfree86'
>> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/xorg-server-1.6.5/hw/xfree86'
>> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/obj/pkg/x11/modular-xorg-server/work.lobos/xorg-server-1.6.5/hw'
>> gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> *** Error code 2
>>
>> Stop.
>> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop.
>> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server
>>