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- From: juando@cnm.us.es
- Subject: Re: Building X11R5 on Convex
- Message-ID: <9211130136.AA00812@sparc1.cnm.us.es>
- X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 2: 36:08 UTC+0100
- Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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- References: <Mail.from.'JRowe@cen.ex.ac.uk.(J.Rowe)'.dated: .12.Nov.92.16:26:19.GMT>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:58:08 GMT
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- >X-Envelope-to: JRowe@cen.ex.ac.uk, xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- In article <BxM2zv.9wL@cen.ex.ac.uk> JRowe@cen.ex.ac.uk (J.Rowe) writes:
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- >
- >Has anyone actually managed this trick? When I try make World it
- >pretty quickly bombs out because Convex's cpp can't concatenate
- >strings (I'm running ConvexOS 9.1).
- >
- >I've tried manually massaging a few files, eventually I can build
- >libX11.a but it doesn't work! Of course, Convex charge extra for their
- >version of X so I guess that gives them an incentive to stop you being
- >able to build your own. Convex used to believe in open systems and
- >compatiblity. Then again, in the UK they used to believe in
- >technical support too. :-(
- >
- >Dr. John Rowe
- >Dept. Physics
- >Exeter University
- >U.K.
-
- We finally did it here, but it was pretty hard. Most of the files were
- compiled using gcc. I don't remember exactly, but I think a few files failed,
- and those were compiled with the native C compiler. Anyway it is possible
- to do it. If you have interest I'll try to find out something more or direct
- you to people in charge of this. I believe someone took notes of the process.
-
- Regards.
- --
- Juan D. Martin Centro Nacional de Microelectronica
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