Thanks Marcin for reviewing :-) I figured it would make a good start for a
working draft once it makes it up into the wiki.
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Jubal Skaggs wrote:
>
> > Here we go, after applying Marcin's patches, I can bring up Xsession
> using
> > these notes - can we make a wiki page for FreeBSD? :-)
>
> Thanks for writing this up!
>
> > 1. Install freebsd9-amd64, get lib32 and ports
> >
> > 2. Add your hostname to the localhost line in /etc/hosts (I have a dhcp
> > address)
> >
> > 3. Update your ports tree with portsnap
> >
> > 4. install packages
> > pkg_add -r xorg
> > pkg_add -r git
> > pkg_add -r iconv
> > pkg_add -r bdftopcf
> > cd /usr/ports/shells/ksh93; make; make install
> >
> > 4. build openmotif from ports, fix the Makefile first (fixes a problem
> > building dtpad and dtmail related to XmPrintCallbackStruct)
> > cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif
> > vi Makefile
> > change the line
> > CPPFLAGS+= -DCSRG_BASED -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DXNO_MTSAFE_PWDAPI
> > to:
> > CPPFLAGS+= -DCSRG_BASED -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DXNO_MTSAFE_PWDAPI
> > -I${LOCALBASE}/include
> >
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > 5. add to /etc/rc.conf
> > hald_enable="YES"
> > dbus_enable="YES"
> > rpcbind_enable="YES"
> > rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
> > rpc_statd_enable="YES"
>
> Do we really need dbus if we have ToolTalk? :)
> (My X.org server works without hal as well but you
> are right about the package)
>
> > 6. reboot your machine.
> >
> > 8. clone the source from the git repository (I'm doing all of this as
> root
> > on an expendable machine.)
> > cd ~
> > git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code cdesktopenv-code
> > 9. make symlinks
> > cd ~/cdesktopenv-code/cde/imports
> > mkdir -p x11
> > cd x11
> > ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin .
> > ln -s /usr/local/include .
> > ln -s /usr/local/lib .
> > cd ~/cdesktopenv-code/cde/imports/motif
> > mkdir -p include
> > cd include
> > ln -s /usr/local/include/Xm .
>
> Until everything is fixed I would say you have to do
>
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/ksh93 /bin/ksh
>
> > 10. pull down sapers patches from the news server (hopefully these will
> be
> > fit to be merged into the mainline soon.)
> > cd ~/cdesktopenv-code/cde
> > git apply patch from:
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1345083730-60762-1-git-send-email-saper%40saper.info&forum_name=cdesktopenv-devel
> > git apply patch from
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1345334660-16345-1-git-send-email-saper%40saper.info&forum_name=cdesktopenv-devel
> > make World
>
> > 11. do the installation
> > # Install CDE
> > cd ~/cdesktopenv-code/cde/admin/IntegTools/dbTools
> > ./installCDE -s /path/to/cdesktopenv-code/cde/
>
> I am using
>
> sudo ksh93 ./installCDE -s /path/to/cdesktopenv-code/cde/
>
> >
> > # It seems this dir needs to be writable by every user of CDE
> > chmod -R a+rwx /var/dt
>
> Works for me as is : here's my ls -ld /var/dt:
> drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 512 19 sie 23:05 /var/dt
>
> > # Directory required for calendar service
> > mkdir -p /usr/spool/calendar
>
> My personal preference based on old UNIX experience:
>
> mkdir /var/spool/calendar
> ln -s /var/spool /usr/spool
>
> > mkdir -p /etc/tt
> > cp ~/cdesktopenv-code/cde/programs/tttypes/types.xdr /etc/tt
> >
> > 12. Fire it up :-)
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/dt/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> or ldconfig -m /usr/dt/lib
>
> > export PATH=/usr/dt/bin:$PATH
> > export LANG=C
> > startx /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
>
> I was still using my hacked up Xsession
> but you are right - this one works.
>
> //Marcin
>
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