DEC clients running under MIT X11R4?

Mike Iglesias iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu
Fri Feb 15 13:02:58 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb14.160319.2761 at vax5.cit.cornell.edu> bqsy1 at vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>       We recently built X11R4 on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1,
>using DEC's cc. Everything went well with no reported compilation or
>linking errors. However, we have run into the following problem - we seem
>to be unable to run the dx* binaries under X11R4. Any attempt to run these
>produces a core dump.

If you've pointed /usr/lib/X11 at the X11R4 copy, you're missing the
app-defaults files, the files in /usr/lib/X11/eu, and the files in
/usr/lib/X11/uid from the DEC distribution.  Without some subset (or all)
of those files, the dx clients core dump.  You'll have to mix the DEC
files in with the X11R4 files to make the dx clients work.

>       My understanding of DEC's Xserver, and from looking at the
>libraries and include files for DEC's X11, is that is an R4 port, without
>the extensions. What else did DEC do to its clients to make them not work
>under MIT's R4??

No, DEC's server is X11R3, although Ultrix 4.2 is rumored to have
an X11R4 server.



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