Subject: Re: HP-UX X server (was: kernel build...)
To: Steve Peurifoy <sp128@ibm.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 08/27/1998 10:28:09
Hmm - does the hpux emulation use /emul/hpux in a similar way to
sunos and solaris (check the compat_sunos manpage for details)
If not, is it worth someone looking at making it do so?
(Sorry, not volunteering :)
David/absolute
-=- "Just when everything was making sense" -=-
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Steve Peurifoy wrote:
>
> > Ah, you're running the HP-UX X server under emulation mode? Fantastic!
> > I would like to put up some detailed information on the www server on
> > how to do this... are there any volunteers out there who could help with
> > this?
>
> I'll describe the setup I use for what it's worth. I make no claims that
> this is the best arrangement but it works well for me...
>
> I wanted to keep the HP stuff isolated from the rest of the system for
> ease of keeping track of what's what, so I put it into its own directory
> tree and run it chroot()ed. At the end of this message is a list of the
> contents of the tree obtained from an HP-UX 9.0 system. The relevant
> NetBSD device files need to be added to this tree bien sur. The X server
> proper is actually from a patch (whose designation I don't remember)
> which fixes a few bugs in the released version, but either should work.
> The fonts are not from HP-UX but (with a few additions) are the ones
> from the old BSD X11R5 package. Everything else in my setup (clients,
> startup scripts, etc.) is from there as well.
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