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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