Re: [suse-axp] X on Alphastation 400

From: Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 16:27:20 PDT

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    From: Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004110123510.24022-100000@fatou.suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] X on Alphastation 400
    

    On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

    > I recompiled XFree86 sources from my 6.3 i386 CDs. Now it works, the
    > compile options "-mev4 -fno-rerun-cse-after-loop" did the trick.
    >
    > The installation was a little difficult, though. This is one of my first
    > source RPM install, so I'm not very proficient yet. It seems that the
    > install script tried to copy a number of files and/or symbolic links and
    > it clashed with existing ones, it returned with error and the
    > installation failed. I went to the SPECS file and added "-f" to the cp
    > commands, also went under /usr/X11R6 and removed all symbolic links.
    > This time it finished the installation. You may say that removing all
    > those sym links was crude, but the installation took so long to bomb and
    > having tried several times I was loosing patience.
    >
    > The only unusual thing was that the script "startx" was zero length. I
    > copied the one from my PC and I started X and KDE fine.
    >
    > Another observation is that after recompiling glib, gtk and qt, some
    > applications still have the text labels offset. Any comments on that?
    Sounds like you're running gcc-2.95.2. The "-fno-rerun-cse-after-loop"
    seems to be necessary at least for the c++-sources. To have this globally,
    try to add it to your specs-file (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/$platform/$version/specs)
    [...]
    *cc1plus:
    -fno-rerun-cse-after-loop
    [...]
    This seems to cure at least the Qt/KDE problems, I don't have done tests
    with the others yet.
    >
    >
    >

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    with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
                                  Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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