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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:26:20 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg-server 6.9.0 won't build on 4.11-stable
Message-ID:  <20060125202620.GF25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20060125132352.44e452d3.steve@sohara.org>
References:  <43D76846.8090200@izb.knu.ac.kr> <200601251229.k0PCTKNY033601@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20060125132352.44e452d3.steve@sohara.org>

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On Wed, 2006-Jan-25 13:23:52 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:29:20 +1100
>Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote:
>> 	Or I suspect you can get away with just using gcc33 which
>> 	has va_copy() builtin.
>
>	Hmm I have gcc34 courtesy of some other ports build dependency,
>so I suppose I could add a USE_GCC=3.4 to the Makefile.
>
>	Would it be a good idea to add this to all the xorg-6.9 Makefiles ?

Looking at bsd.gcc.mk, maybe "USE_GCC=3.3+" would be acceptable.  I
find ports that depend on specific version of gcc annoying - it's
not especially fast to build and having multiple versions lying
around starts to eat disk space.

>	As an aside running a 6.8.2 server on top of 6.9 libraries produces
>an interesting effect - after a few minutes the mouse pointer dives to the
>left side of the screen and then will only move vertically.

I don't think that should happen, though I doubt that combination is
officially supported.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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