Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 12:22:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and -current Message-ID: <XFMail.980909122208.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980910000427.C21944@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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David Dawes, On 09-Sep-98 you wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 09:38:25AM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > >Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth, On 09-Sep-98 you > >wrote: > >> > >> The latest alpha of XFree86 (3.9Nd) build & runs fine under ELF, > >> providing you > >> have set up your host.def correctly. > > > >For the less fortunate amoung ourselves, can yo enumerate ``...set up > >your > >host.def correctly'' ? > > He means adding: > > #define UseElfFormat YES > > because it isn't yet auto-detected in our the ELF bits in the current > XFree86 developmenet code. > > I don't see how that would account for the -lcrypt thing. If you noticed from the conversion of FreeBSD (make world, etc.) to ELF, this was necessary to explicitly state. I think it simply carries over from that conversion. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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