Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > (btw, fixing the X server is on my todo) >> >> All I have to say about the X server, as the person who generated most >> of the patches, is that they're actually very straightforward, if rather >> invasive. I simply had to go through each config option and decide whether >> it should be handled in the 'native' way, or the GNU-userland way (and it >> was very much a userland issue, not a libc issue). >> >> The *hard* part was in hunting down build problems and bad assumptions in >> something the size of the X codebase. That isn't going to be any saner on a >> Glibc+FreeBSD system; probably less sane, in fact. > > That was pretty much my experience, too. In fact, I tried to get it > working on glibc, and had fits with it. I particularly remember xterm > being a disaster. I gave up on it, and Robert evidently got it working > except for the server. It probably needs some headers in <sys/> that > glibc didn't get right.
I haven't been following too closely. Could someone explain what the issue is? Obviously XFree works fine on NetBSD -- I'm using it at this very moment. Given that it works fine on NetBSD, what's the issue? Perry
