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From: grogers@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Info for X11 on IBM/RT
Message-ID: <26900043@uiucdcsm>
Date: 28 Jun 88 01:41:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grogers    Jun 27 20:41:00 1988


If you are using Berkeley Unix, you should have no trouble running
X.V11R1.  In fact, this is part of the IBM distribution of AOS 4.3 Unix.
However, the MIT X Consortium release 2 of X 11 will not even compile on
the RT.  I spent several days trying to get it working and finally went
back to R1.  Incomplete makefiles for the server and plenty of code in the
toolkit that would not compile let me know that no one had ever tried to
build X before distributing it.  On the brighter side, I have been told
(by people who know) that IBM is fixing release 2 and will ship it with
future 4.3 releases.  Generally there has been a new release of Unix about
every 6 months, so there should be another one soon (just speculation on
my part).


Greg Rogers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
1304 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-6174

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