Xvnc build on Itanium 64 bit Linux

[Jeff Boerio]

I've been looking into this, and I've got a compile running right now,
as it turns out.  The .../Xvnc/config/cf/linux.cf likely needs some
handholding.

The key is looking at what it's trying to do:
> gcc -O -ansi -pedantic  -I../../include -I../../exports/include/X11  -I../..
> -I../../exports/include  -Dlinux LinuxMachineDefines
> -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500L -D_BSD_SOURCE
> -D_SVID_SOURCE   -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO
> -DCPP_PROGRAM="\"/lib/cpp\""   -c -o imake.o imake.c

Note the "... -Dlinux LinuxMachineDefines ..."

The problem is in that during the bootstrap process, it didn't know what
to do with this, so it got treated as a literal, not a variable, in the
.../Xvnc/config/cf/linux.cf file.  I changed this file (line 243) so
that it read:  

#define  LinuxMachineDefines     -D__i386__

As I'm typing this, my compile finished.  But the Xvnc binary isn't
accepting any connections (and nothing is getting put into the
logfile).  So I have some investigating to do.

Hopefully this will help you, and maybe your work will help fix my
screwups :)

     - Jeff


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 14:59, Lorenzen, James wrote:
> Has anyone successfully built Xvnc on RHAS for the 64 bit Itanium 2
> machines?  I tried to build, but I received an error in "imake".  The README
> indicates that "playing around" with some parameters may be needed.  I am a
> rookie with the Linux builds and my main job is care, feeding and
> installation of Oracle.  
> 
> The i386 version of vncserver works up to the point of stating any X11
> program, then it doesn't work.  I thought I could get the source code (from
> realvnc) and try that, but the "make World" errorred out.  This is the last
> of the error message.
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/grna3/temp/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
> cd ./config/imake && make -f Makefile.proto all
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/grna3/temp/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
> gcc -O -ansi -pedantic  -I../../include -I../../exports/include/X11  -I../..
> -I../../exports/include  -Dlinux LinuxMachineDefines
> -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500L -D_BSD_SOURCE
> -D_SVID_SOURCE   -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO
> -DCPP_PROGRAM="\"/lib/cpp\""   -c -o imake.o imake.c
> gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
> make[2]: *** [imake.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/grna3/temp/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
> make[1]: *** [imake.bootstrap] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/grna3/temp/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc'
> make: *** [World] Error 2
> 
> I do not know how to turn off the parms that triggered this error.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> James Lorenzen
> XIOtech Corporation
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