Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
>
> :   Word of warning. Problems may exist between the NetBSD xsrc binaries and
> : teh Xarm server for the RiscPC. The problems lies in the fact that the
> : Xarm server is not based on the XFree86 tree and the format of several
> : files differs e.g. rgb.db etc.
>                      ^^^^^^
> What's different in this particular file?  The satellite files such as these
> should be the same type, and have the same contents....
>
> (Xarm should be based on NetBSD xsrc, whether or not it uses xf86 server
> code; I'd be glad to help merge it, if necessary.)

Ah you see, there in lies the problem: Xarm is actually a port of the
MIT X11R6.3 tree not the XF86/netbsd 3.2.x tree. There are, as Mark pointed
out, some small changes between the two (notiticably in the compiled databases
- although not the text versions of them). There are other changes between the
two trees obviously but they are relativly transparent (well, almost, I can
think of a few threads issues that we know of here at NCI that are not in the
MIT tree and are in XFree and vice versa, not to mention caching algorithms
etc).

Paul