[stsf] STSF build failure on SuSE 9.1 ...

[Roland Mainz]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > Unfortunately I realised that Linux support is currently completely
> > > defunct. I hacked a little bit around until it _compiled_ ... but I
> > > think it's better that I attach the patch to a bugzilla bug and someone
> > > with better knowledge of that code reviews the patch and checks it in
> > > (otherwise it may happen that Linux builds and the Solaris build is
> > > screwed-up).
> > >
> > > Beyond getting the compilation of the Xorg/STSF trees working... does
> > > anyone ever tried to _run_ a XST-enabled Xserver on Linux ? I tried my
> > > luck but "xdpyinfo" doesn't show the XST extension, regardless what I
> > > put in "/etc/X11/XF86Config" ... ;-(
> >
> > Yes, we were running an ST-enabled XFree86-based server on Linux until
> > several months ago when we had to make sure that ST for Solaris has all
> > the features we need. Since our current builds work fine with the XOrg
> > server on Solaris, I would expect them to work with XOrg or XFree86
> > on Linux.
> 
> Well, there were a bunch of glitches. I'll fixed or hacked around them -
> when my build is done I'll attach the patch to a bug report that either
> you, Jay or Alan can walk throught it and check whether my changes make
> any sense... :)

Filed http://stsf.freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=771 , two
patches in the bug...

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Bye,
Roland

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