Subject: Re: Enabling SysV IPC API in XFree86
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/10/2003 13:37:37
I've committed it. Could someone help by submitting the patch back to
the XFree folks?

Perry

christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> In article <87y90aah6o.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
> Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> >About a month ago, Quentin sent this to the list. Did we ever get any
> >consensus on it?
> >
> >Perry
> 
> Let's commit it.
> 
> christos
> 
> >
> >Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> NVidia's binary driver needs working IPC routines to run (so even XFree86
> >> 4.3.0 needs patching, no matter what I said before).
> >> 
> >> Although it was a hack for XFree86 4.2.1, since some #ifdef'ing was needed
> >> inside the source, it is very easy for 4.3.0.
> >> 
> >> I'd like very much to see this patch committed. Could there be any reason
> >> not to activate support for SysV IPC services in XFree86 ?
> >> 
> >> [I reformatted the diff a bit.]
> >> 
> >> Index: xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile
> >> diff -u -r1.12 Imakefile
> >> --- xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile.orig
> >> +++ xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/Imakefile
> >> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
> >>  MTRRDEFINES = -DHAS_MTRR_BUILTIN
> >>  #endif
> >>  
> >> -#if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture)
> >> +#if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture) || defined(NetBSDArchitecture)
> >>  SYSVIPCDEFINES = -DHAVE_SYSV_IPC
> >>  #endif
> >>  
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net
> >> "Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
> >> Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
> >> Leigh Nash/Sixpence None The Richer, Paralyzed, Divine Discontents, 2002.
> >> 
> >
> >-- 
> >Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
> 
> 
> 

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