On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:22:53PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > > > All I have to say about the X server, as the person who generated most > > of the patches, is that they're actually very straightforward, if rather > > invasive. I simply had to go through each config option and decide whether > > it should be handled in the 'native' way, or the GNU-userland way (and it > > was very much a userland issue, not a libc issue). > > > > The *hard* part was in hunting down build problems and bad assumptions in > > something the size of the X codebase. That isn't going to be any saner on a > > Glibc+FreeBSD system; probably less sane, in fact. > > That was pretty much my experience, too. In fact, I tried to get it > working on glibc, and had fits with it. I particularly remember xterm > being a disaster. I gave up on it, and Robert evidently got it working > except for the server. It probably needs some headers in <sys/> that > glibc didn't get right.
Porting Xfree86 with Glibc was just a task of fixing minor build errors. Look at my patches, most of them are one-liners. As for xterm, there were only two hunks iirc. One to s/__GNU__/__GLIBC__/g and another to include termios.h. Just look at the comparison (in my local tree): $ wc -l debian/patches/84* debian/patches/000_stolen_from_HEAD_netbsd.diff 51 debian/patches/840_netbsd_bsdLib.rules_fix.diff 36 debian/patches/841_netbsd_imake.c_fixes.diff 190 debian/patches/842_netbsd_NetBSD.cf_fixes.diff 26 debian/patches/843_netbsd_no_shared_OldX_lib.diff 19 debian/patches/844_netbsd_no_kbd_mode_command.diff 195 debian/patches/000_stolen_from_HEAD_netbsd.diff 517 total $ wc -l debian/patches/82* 100 debian/patches/820_gnu-kbsd_config.diff 16 debian/patches/822_gnu-kbsd_xload.diff 37 debian/patches/823_gnu-kbsd_xterm.diff 153 total And note the name "gnu-kbsd", not "gnu-kfreebsd". None of these patches is KFreeBSD-specific. 820, 822 and 823 actualy fix it for all new Glibc-based GNU variants (even non-K*BSD ones). -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
