porting X11R4 to irix 3.2

[Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson]

i posted a week or so ago asking for help porting X11R4 (libraries
and include files only) to a personal iris running irix 3.2.1. i'm
happy to report that, with some guidance from the net, i have
succeeded. to summarize:

first of all, it's probably important to note the words of Jeff
Weinstein's recent comp.sys.sgi posting:

    Attention all people trying to compile X11R4 on sgi machines!!

    IRIX 3.3 has a complete set of ported/supported X11R4 clients
    and libraries, and a server that is X11R3 with some X11R4 stuff
    like shape extension thrown in.  Note that the libraries, header
    files, and Imake config files are part of the X11 development
    tape distribution, which is sold at extra cost.

    It is also worth noting that 3.3 has a much improved X server.

it is still my understanding, however, that the libraries and
include files (the sgi "X development" tape/option) will not come
bundled with irix 3.3 -- they will still be an extra-cost option.
(please correct me if i'm wrong.)

for those who are still interested in building X11R4 "by hand", i
recommend you get jim helman's "4DX-patch1" via anonymous ftp from
fresnel.stanford.edu (it's in /pub/4DX, or something like that).
with these patches, i was able to build and install the X11R4
libraries and include files. (according to the patches, one should
also be able to build the X11R4 clients.)

for those of you who don't have access to anonymous FTP, i'd be
happy to send you the patch file.

kudos to jim helman for making these patches available. 

thanks to all those who replied to my original posting (Jeff
Weinstein, John McCalpin, Anthony Persechini, David Anderson, David
Harrison, Jim Helman, Michael Zeitlin, Robert Olson, Roger Fujii,
and Jean-Francois Panisset).
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kirk johnson                                           `Eat blue dogs
tuna at masala.lcs.mit.edu                                 and dig life.'