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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:00:17 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        jon@cops.com, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908261058150.349-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908252251350.369-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 jon@cops.com wrote:
> 
> > I have an alpha server 400 (Avanti). 
> > 
> > I successfully installed 3.2-RELEASE and then the latest 4.0
> > snapshot.  Neither of which had a /usr/X11R6 so I built X11 myself.  
> > It seemed to build fine but half way through the "make install" I
> > get all kinds of errors about -lX11 no resolving.  libX11.so did
> > build and it is sitting in my /usr/X11R6/lib directory but it is
> > still not found.  I tried setting my ldconfig by hand and even
> > rebooting but I never got it to work.
> 
> [please use 80 column lines]
> 
> I just did it, and I had one problem with an inability to find 
> <sys/pci_ioctl.h>, which I found in /sys/pci/pci_ioctl.h.  It's a bad
> fix, but while I fix this platform, I just copied the file over to
> /usr/include/sys and it then built and installed fine.
> 
> I have to find why the file was moved, to figure out the right fix.
> 
> I did this with the latest snap, I haven't brought it to current yet (I
> will).  Do a make clean, and do the make again, this time saving the
> build script, and make real certain of the acutual error.  If it's not
> the pci_ioctl.h thing, then send me the build script (the whole thing,
> don't get stingy on me).

The file never got moved to /sys/sys in the first place. Last time I
attempted to think about this, the discussion faded out trying to figure
out what copyright the file should have. Moving this file involves fixing
a few places in the kernel and elsewhere which include it.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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