1.4.2 will not have a vax Xserver

[Todd Whitesel]

> So, you can leave it out without problem. It's useless anyway.

Okay, in that case:

1. if we do not have some kind of xserver.tgz file, sysinst will whine.
so either I provide a dummy tarball or I patch sysinst.
I think I know how to do the latter so I will try that.

2. we need to disable the vax xerver in the main xsrc tree. I will have
a patch in my LAST_MINUTE file for vax, so it can probably be
taken care of sometime in the next week when I upload vax 1.4.2.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com

[Anders Magnusson]

> Unless someone can figure out where the heck machine/qvioctl.h went and
> give me a patch in a few days, mono_io.c will not build on 1.4.2 and that
> means no Xserver for NetBSD/vax 1.4.2.
>
> I already posted about this once.
>
Ok, now when I'm back online I can tell the story:

machine/qvioctl.h is a leftover since 4.4BSD. It has no need of existance
at all in NetBSD.

The X server for NetBSD/vax is quite useless; it has no support for
mouse or keyboard but it can display X programs :-) I just hacked it
for fun to see if it worked at all. The reason it needs qvioctl.h is
that I haven't cleaned up all references to the qv structures in the
X server files.

So, you can leave it out without problem. It's useless anyway.

-- Ragge

[Todd Whitesel]

Unless someone can figure out where the heck machine/qvioctl.h went and
give me a patch in a few days, mono_io.c will not build on 1.4.2 and that
means no Xserver for NetBSD/vax 1.4.2.

I already posted about this once.

I'm starting my final vax 1.4.2 build tonight, with Xserver disabled.
If we can get this fixed before it finishes, I'll rebuild X to get
the server in. Otherwise netBSD/vax 1.4.2 will have no Xserver in it.

[Anders Magnusson]

> > So, you can leave it out without problem. It's useless anyway.
>

> Okay, in that case:
>
> 1. if we do not have some kind of xserver.tgz file, sysinst will whine.
> so either I provide a dummy tarball or I patch sysinst.
> I think I know how to do the latter so I will try that.
>
> 2. we need to disable the vax xerver in the main xsrc tree. I will have
> a patch in my LAST_MINUTE file for vax, so it can probably be
> taken care of sometime in the next week when I upload vax 1.4.2.
>

...or put the attached two files in include and compile the X server,
just to get it out. They are directly from the 4.4 dist so you may
have to change some small #include directives.

-- Ragge

[Anders Magnusson]

> > ...or put the attached two files in include and compile the X server,
> > just to get it out. They are directly from the 4.4 dist so you may
> > have to change some small #include directives.
>

> Cool, I'll switch to this then.
>
> Will it build on a -current system? We should make that work, so I don't
> have to go through this again for 1.5.
>
I plan to have fixed both the keyboard/mouse support and the X server
so that it will be real functioning before 1.5 is cutted.
(I can't guarantee that I will succeed, but I will at least fix the
file mono_io.c so that it doesn't require those files :-)

-- Ragge

[Todd Whitesel]

> ...or put the attached two files in include and compile the X server,
> just to get it out. They are directly from the 4.4 dist so you may
> have to change some small #include directives.

Cool, I'll switch to this then.

Will it build on a -current system? We should make that work, so I don't
have to go through this again for 1.5.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com