RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: _XInherit: jmp (*xyz) where xyz is the address of the image allocation table, in which the address of the real function address is stored. So using *(long *)((long)_XInherit+2) in a client dll for comparing gives the real function address.

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: I changed the type of _XtInherit to a variable instead of a function. It compiles but I've not tested it completely. That was a dead-end too. With this way we have a symbol which contains the address of the XtInherit

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: I changed the type of _XtInherit to a variable instead of a function. It compiles but I've not tested it completely. #ifdef SUNSHLIB /* * _XtInherit needs to be statically linked since it is compared against as * well as called. */ void

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: + void (_XtInherit)(void) = __XtInherit; oops, missed one character. It must be + void (*_XtInherit)(void) = __XtInherit; hope it'n now correct *g* bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-29 Thread Ralf Habacker
#ifdef SUNSHLIB /* * _XtInherit needs to be statically linked since it is compared against as * well as called. */ void _XtInherit() { extern void __XtInherit(); __XtInherit(); } #define _XtInherit __XtInherit + #elif defined(CYGWIN) + void (_XtInherit)(void) =

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: Why ? Does client code access _XtInherit+offset at any place ? Only in that case the pseudo-reloc stuff is needed. No. It never uses this indirect access (it would not make sense either since _XtInherit is a function and (f + 4)() does not make much

Re: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Nicholas, I really don't know what to do here. Perhaps some others know what to do and whether or not this is a good idea. Would it be easier to update to 4.3.0? Have we already made Xt a shared lib in 4.3.0? I've supplied some patches

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
ago BTW: there are some design problems with the shared library. snip This test is also done in other shared libraries. On linux (and most unices) there is no problem with this. But on windows the symbol XtInherit in the other library points to the import table and is different to

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: Do you have really tried this ? yes. On the assembly level every reference of the above symbol uses the same symbolname, which is the address of the stub coming from the libxxx.dll.a or any other import library (or build internally by ld in case of

Re: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Nicholas, I really don't know what to do here. Perhaps some others know what to do and whether or not this is a good idea. Would it be easier to update to 4.3.0? Have we already made Xt a shared lib in 4.3.0? On a side note, has anyone been seeing signs of when

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Alexander, for libXt it uses the direct address. For every other library using the libXt.dll it uses the address from the stub. I see, this is another case. Please take a look into xc/lib/xt/Initialize.c and xc/lib/xt/sharedlib.c which provides such a case for another os. I don't

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi Alexander, for libXt it uses the direct address. For every other library using the libXt.dll it uses the address from the stub. I see, this is another case. Please take a look into xc/lib/xt/Initialize.c and xc/lib/xt/sharedlib.c which provides such a case for

[XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXta shared library.

2003-07-27 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Hi Harold, It's been awhile... Anyhow, I've been working on a few packages which use libtool, and thus the reason behind my request. It turns out, using the new libtool, that one has to go to extreme lengths just to get libXt to link in, since the new libtool balks at linking true static

Re: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please makelibXt a shared library.

2003-07-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Nicholas, I really don't know what to do here. Perhaps some others know what to do and whether or not this is a good idea. Would it be easier to update to 4.3.0? Have we already made Xt a shared lib in 4.3.0? On a side note, has anyone been seeing signs of when 4.4.0 is going to be

RE: XFree86 4.2.0 orphans shell on termination

2002-11-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Bax Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree86 4.2.0 orphans shell on termination Hi When closing XWin, I am experiencing relatively frequent post-termination orphaning (improper clean-up

cygwin XFree86 4.2.0-7 works with old HP-UX 9 vue

2002-06-25 Thread Joan Bertran
I haven't tried it since 4.2.0-2 but the new release works fine with the old HP stations as well as linux. (The releases 4.1.0 and 4.2.0-0 didn't resize/move windows when dragging the mouse) And the -nodecoration parameter is great! Thanks.

Re: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0

2002-05-06 Thread Gene C. Ruzicka
- Original Message - From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0 Hi I ran into the following problem with the current XFree86 distribution, but could not find any mention of any solution

Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDEfro m HPUX

2002-04-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Michael Reaser wrote: XWin -query aa.bb.cc.dd -fp tcp/aa.bb.cc.dd:7000 Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 6 failed for display 0.0.0.0:0: Cannot open display you need the -from parameter. XWin -query aa.bb.cc.dd -from localip (not

XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDE from HPUX

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Reaser
I've got a Dell PC running Win98 on which I've installed Cygwin from http://cygwin.com followed by XFree86 from http://cygwin.com/mirrors (specifically, archive.progeny.com, and for X I grabbed the binaries from /cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0). I only brought down the binaries, as I *really*

Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDE fro m HPUX

2002-04-15 Thread Matthew Bradford
Mike, Try adding -from your_ip_address in your XWin.exe command. Windows may be reporting a hostname that your sun box doesn't know how to translate back to an IP. And 0.0.0.0 in that error log seems to go well with that. So then the full command you'd want to try would be: XWin

Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDEfro m HPUX

2002-04-15 Thread Ian Burrell
Michael Reaser wrote: Unfortunately, the PC has an i810, so XWin is giving me fits. It works fine from another PC without the Intel 810 chipset, and works right if I just invoke it from the Bash shell using The chipset shouldn't matter one bit. XWin doesn't use the XFree86 video

Re: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-06 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
about. - Original Message - From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:48 AM Subject: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0 Hi I ran into the following problem with the current XFree86 distribution, but could not find any mention of any

Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-05 Thread Michael
Hi I ran into the following problem with the current XFree86 distribution, but could not find any mention of any solution here or elsewhere. SYMPTOMS * vt102 terminal setting (TERM) in xterm windows instead of xterm * WARNING: terminal is not fully functional error messages from

Re: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Michael, You already know way more about the problem than I do. I have never seen the problem described so completely. Reasoning from what you have said leads me to believe that the packaging script that we use (same as all of the other XFree86 platforms) may be misbehaving and accidentally

RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K

2002-02-07 Thread Harold Hunt
Pavel, To Harold: I think this should be included in FAQ (and fixed, if you have an AIX machine to test it :-))) This is the first that I have heard of the problem. I need the problem to be described in more detail before I can add an entry to the FAQ. I need to know how to reproduce the

RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel . Rybnicek
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RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K

2002-02-06 Thread Harold Hunt
I've never seen this problem. Best of luck. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Moore, Billiam Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:29 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86

RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K

2002-02-06 Thread Pavel . Rybnicek
: cygwin-xfree-owner@Subject: RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K cygwin.com

Re: XFree86 4.2.0

2002-01-21 Thread Alan Hourihane
. They're up on ftp.xfree86.org:/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/Cygwin If anyone can test them beside me - that'd be good (mirrors should be updated soon). Alan.

XFree86 4.2.0

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Hourihane
XFree86 4.2.0 has been tagged and the binaries are showing up on ftp.xfree86.org now. Are we bothering with a distribution as per the normal XFree86 approach? or is anyone working on distributing XFree86 4.2.0 via the setup.exe mechanism ? Alan.

RE: XFree86 4.2.0

2002-01-20 Thread Harold Hunt
XFree86 4.2.0 has been tagged and the binaries are showing up on ftp.xfree86.org now. Are we bothering with a distribution as per the normal XFree86 approach? or is anyone working on distributing XFree86 4.2.0 via the setup.exe mechanism ? Alan. Alan, Well, we have to make a standard

Re: XFree86 4.2.0

2002-01-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote: All that should be needed (as a starting point) for a setup.exe based distribution (if your current tarballs are rooted at / ) is to * Create a src package(s) as appropriate. You can have one for all the binaries (*) * Rename any hardcoded config

Re: XFree86 4.2.0

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further separations can probably made (separate fonts packages, separate documentation packages, etc. Think of all the choices that the install script gives youon what to install). I'm talking about getting *something* up

Re: xfree86 4.2.0

2002-01-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:51:52AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote: All that should be needed (as a starting point) for a setup.exe based distribution (if your current tarballs are rooted at / ) is to