Building Xorg on Solaris 8

[Greg Huxley]

Cheers Alan that fixed the problem.  Make World completed successfully
after a couple of other small issues, but now when I try to make install
it fails running mkfontscale with a segmentation fault.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM [mailto:Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM] 
Sent: 18 May 2009 16:58
To: Greg Huxley
Cc: xorg at freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Building Xorg on Solaris 8

Greg Huxley wrote:
> I'm trying to build X11R6.9 on Solaris 8 and it is failing on the
following:

An obsolete X release for an obsolete OS release?

> closefrom                          
> ../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/libxf86.a(xf86Events.o)

Sorry - that's probably my fault - the closefrom() function was
introduced in
Solaris 9, but the check in the X11R6.9 code just checks for any SVR4
based
Solaris release (i.e. Solaris 2.0 or later).   I've not tried building
on
Solaris 8 in many years (since before X11R6.9 was out), but you should
be
able to work around this by editing
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c
and just deleting the closefrom() call.   If you do crash and call
pstack
to print the stack trace to the log, you'll pass all of Xorg's open file
descriptors to pstack, but that probably won't hurt it.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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