Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86

2002-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bertrand Muquet wrote: Hello I've got a problem running xdvi with Xfree 86 When Xdvi shall display .eps files, it does not work and I get the fwg msg: gs: unknown device:X11 This message is coming from ghostscript. This gs is not compiled with X11 support.

RE: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Harold L Hunt wrote: Do you understand what PROGS_EXE is for? Do you understand why we cannot use PROGRAMS? No. PROGS_EXE is simply all strings from PROGRAMS with .exe added. But the .exe is already added before ComplexTarget is called. So if eg. compiling xterm,

RE: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Harold Hunt
If that is the case then the Imakefile for xterm needs to be fixed because some non-Cygwin programmer that has an empty ProgramTargetName macro accidentally wrapped each target name in PROGRAMS with ProgramTargetName. On their non-Cygwin platform this makes no difference, but on Cygwin this makes

RE: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: If that is the case then the Imakefile for xterm needs to be fixed because some non-Cygwin programmer that has an empty ProgramTargetName macro accidentally wrapped each target name in PROGRAMS with ProgramTargetName. On their non-Cygwin platform this

Re: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On 18 Aug 2002, Michael D. Harnois wrote: make[4]: *** No rule to make target `lndir.exe.o', needed by `lndir.exe'. gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -Wpointer-arith -I../.. -I../../exports/i The Imakefile is broken: #if HasSymLinks #if CrossCompiling LNDIR_PROG =

RE: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Michael Harnois
I have now searched my log ... the problem applies to lndir, rman, makestrs, revpath, bitmap, bmtoa, atobm, proxymngr, xclipboard, xcutsel, xdm, xdmshell, sessreg, chooser, xfindproxy, xinit, and xsm. Michael D. Harnois 2L, University of St. Thomas School of Law Minneapolis, Minnesota

RE: building XFree86 from cvs

2002-08-20 Thread Michael Harnois
Oooh. This is stranger than I thought. Some of those programs do get built correctly, despite the log messages. For instance in config/util, makestrs, revpath, and rman build ... but lndir doesn't. Michael D. Harnois 2L, University of St. Thomas School of Law Minneapolis, Minnesota

Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86

2002-08-20 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bertrand Muquet wrote: Hello I've got a problem running xdvi with Xfree 86 When Xdvi shall display .eps files, it does not work and I get the fwg msg: gs: unknown device:X11 This message is coming from

Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86

2002-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: So all he has to do, if it is possible, is to tell Xdvi to use that binary instead. I have no idea how to do that, though. man xdvi -interpreter filename (.interpreter) Use filename as the Ghostscript in­

Setting up a minimal Xterminal package

2002-08-20 Thread Bernie Cosell
As part of a guerilla effort to get the college I teach at to be more Linux- accepting, I'd like to put together as small and simple a package as possible that I can drop onto a Windows box that'll turn it into an Xterminal running Gnome off of a nearby RedHat box. Is there some howto or

Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86

2002-08-20 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: So all he has to do, if it is possible, is to tell Xdvi to use that binary instead. I have no idea how to do that, though. man xdvi -interpreter filename (.interpreter)