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4. Compiling the XFree86 Distribution

The next sections contain LynxOS specific notes with respect to the build process.

4.1. Disk space requirements

Currently there is no support for shared libraries in the LynxOS XFree86 port. A complete binary installation along with manual pages will require approximately 100 MBytes of disk space. To compile the system you will need at least 250 MBytes of free disk space.

4.2. Changes to system environment (LynxOS x86)

Before compiling the XFree86 distribution you will have to make a few little adjustments to your system:

• If not already installed on your system create a shell script named /lib/cpp as follows:

    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-lynxos2.5/2.7-96q1/cpp \
       -traditional "$@"
  

  On other platforms than the x86 the paths for the compiler support programs are different. You may use

    gcc -v
  

  to find out the correct path. Set the file mode of /lib/cpp with

    # chown root /lib/cpp
    # chmod 755 /lib/cpp
  

• Modify /lib/liblynx.a. The X servers need the smem_create() system call to map the frame buffer into their address space. The system call is in liblynx library along with other Lynx proprietary calls which (unfortunately) overlap with calls in libc. To reduce confusion you should modify liblynx as follows:

    # mv /lib/liblynx.a /lib/liblynx.a.ORG
    # mkdir /tmp/xx; cd /tmp/xx
    # ar xv /lib/liblynx.a.ORG
    # ar rv /lib/liblynx.a *smem*
    # ranlib /lib/liblynx.a
  

4.3. make World

If you have the MTRR device driver installed, add a line

    #define HasMTRRSupport YES
  

to the config/cf/host.def file.

You may then issue a

     make World
  

to compile XFree86. After a few hours (and hopefully a successful build of the XFree86 system) you can install the software using

     make install
  

You must be logged in as super-user (root) when you invoke `make install'.

On LynxOS x86 2.5.0 you may encounter problems with make in deeply nested subdirectories (eg core dumps, hangups). In this case update to GNU make version 3.75 or higher.

4.4. Installing XFree86 manual pages

LynxOS uses cat-able manual pages, and because a doc preparation system is definitely not a vital component of a real-time operating system you must first install groff-1.09 (or newer).

XFree86 manual pages may be installed using

     make install.man
  

The index and whatis database for the XFree86 manual pages will be created automatically. If you already have a whatis database or index file in the destination directories you should perform a sort/uniq operation to remove duplicate entries:

     for i in 1 3 5
     do
       rm -f /tmp/tmpfile
       sort /usr/X11R6/man/cat$i/LIST$i | uniq > /tmp/tmpfile
       mv /tmp/tmpfile /usr/X11R6/man/cat$i/LIST$i
     done
     sort /usr/X11R6/man/whatis | uniq > /tmp/tmpfile
     mv /tmp/tmpfile /usr/X11R6/man/whatis
  

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