From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 28 12:41:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AC837B914 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from altavista.net (dialup4-24.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.226.216]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08857; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:42:37 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <38BADDAE.E63CA45A@altavista.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:42:22 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Home, sweet home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donn Miller Cc: Cliff Rowley , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two queries [ KDE / XFree86 ] References: <38BAC6FE.4ADBF3BB@cvzoom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donn Miller wrote: > Cliff Rowley wrote: > > > This may not be a FreeBSD problem, since I am using the latest XFree86 > > pre-4.0 snapshot. > > > "XFree86-BigFont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24" > > I've got the same problem also, and can confirm it is a > -current/XFree86-3.9.18 problem. (Probabably mainly an XFree86 > problem, I presume.) Apparently, the XFree86 build process isn't > perfect either, since certain options in xc/config/cf/host.def can > cause the "make install" to fail. One set of options I had in > host.def caused the make World to finish successfully. But when I did > the ensuing "make install", it began compiling the aout shared libs, > which it didn't do during the make World. (What the hell?) > > So, it appears that this snapshot can be very "touchy" depending on > what you put in host.def. Changing one minor thing can throw the > whole XFree86 distribution out of whack. I finally got it right, > though, and I'm getting the errors you describe. Do you have any plans to make XFree86-devel port of it? This let us to test it and refine before XF-4.0 will be released. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message