RE: RE:Building XFree

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at InspirePharm dot Com>]

> Suhaib M. Siddiqi,
>
> Yes, I am relative new to compiling xfree.
> I followed your advice and tracked down my problem
>
> Xext did not build because X11 lib did not build.
> X11 did not build because there is no -lipc ?
> It seems I built IPC and renamed it but missed the crucial step of
> installing it in the search PATH......
> Hmm, well, what can I say..........

The -lipc from #define ExtraLibraries was removed in the recent
code base, which was uploaded 2 weeks ago.  You must be working
with XF3.9.18 source tree.

Please edit the xc/config/cygwin.cf and remove -lipc from #define
ExtraLibraries flags. Also change the #deifne HaveShm to NO in cygwin.cf.

The IPC library has serious problems with shared memory in X.  It causes
MIT-SHM
to corrupt XF86 BigFonts and literally any X client which uses
Xterm, Xclock is one of them, to crash due to shared memory
problems and ACCESS_VIOLATION.

>
> I will try rebuilding it again
>
>
> Also while I am here, I also get the following error
> make[1]: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
> Should I just ignore it?

I have no idea about this warning... Does it come during compilation?

Regards
Suhaib

>
> Tks for the help and the good work
>
> Regards Trevor
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
> Cc: "Cygwin-Xfree@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com"
> <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2000 5:06
> Subject: RE:Building XFree
>
>
> >
> > I tried posting a reply to the following message twice, yesterday.
> > Somewhere
> > in the cyberspace my replies got lost and were never posted.
> >
> > The -lXext undefined references you are getting because linXext in
> > xc/lib/Xext did not
> > get compiled.
> > cd to xc/lib/Xext and type
> > make
> > then cut and paste the error messages.  It will help me to find out why
> > compilation of linXext failed.
> >
> > It is a bad idea to link against existing X libs, in
> /usr/X11R6/lib, when
> > compiling X source tree.
> >
> > You cannot use ./configure to compile XFree source tree.  There is no
> > configure.
> > Seems to me you are new to compile X.  X is compiled using imake and
> > makedepend
> > which is invoked by typing
> >
> > make World >& World.log
> >
> > Suhiab
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ----------------
> >
> > While building xfree 4.0 I get the following error.
> >
> >
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-cygwin/2.95.2/../../../../i686-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
> > open -lXext: No such file or directory
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1
> >
> >  Can anyone spare a moment to point me in the right direction to fix it?
> It
> > looks to be a simple path or environment variable problem?   What is the
> > best way to tell ld  the lib is in the /usr/X11r6/lib dir as xfree does
> not
> > use
> >
> "./configure --prefix=/usr/X11r6 --x-includes=/usr/X11r6/include
> --x-librari
> > es=/usr/X11r6/lib "
> >
> > My build is std CD v1.0 build with a path to gcc 2.95.2 added.
> >
> >
> > Regards Trevor
> >
> >