Re: dependancies of bochs; was Re: Install the xbase.tgz.

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

peter%easthope.ca@localhost wrote:
>>From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
>Date:  Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:05:38 +0200
>> ... you installed libX11 from pkgsrc, ...
>
>OK, I've removed all packages reported by pkg_info, except bochs.  
>
>sparc2# pkg_info
>bochs-2.6.2nb2      IA32 and AMD64 PC emulator
>
>> You want the one from xbase.tgz, which is a binary set which did come
>> with the other binary sets you used to install NetBSD.
>
>Only the essentials were installed from the nfs server.
>peter@dalton:/export/sparc2/root$ find . -type f -name 'x*' -print
>peter@dalton:/export/sparc2/root$ find . -type f -name 'X*' -print

>According to 
>http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.4/sparc/INSTALL.html#Binary%20distribution%20sets
>I've retrieved the xbase.tgz to / and "... run the tar -xzpf command from the 
>root directory ( / ) ...".

Ok.

>Now,
>sparc2# startx -display :0

The server isn't in xbase.tgz, it is in xserver.tgz.

If you want to run the X11 server on the sparc you will need to download
and unpack xserver.tgz, xetc.tgz and xfont.tgz. If you want to compile
X11 programs yourself then also get xcomp.tgz.