[rescue]  Re: [SunHELP] Sun Blade 150 with busted IDE, solutions?

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Thu Jan 31 13:37:51 CST 2019


On Jan 28, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:
>
> Its good to hear that someone has been successful compiling Xview and olvwm.
I suspect my compile issues were due to attempting to
> compile with GCC and not the Sun Studio compiler(s).

The variants I built were from pkgsrc, on NetBSD 8. Unfortunately Xview
doesnbt actually work.

I suspect itbs related to the fact that it all still uses K&R style rather
than true function prototypes, so modern compilers generate ambiguous calls
that wind up crashing because of mismatched call sequence expectations. Going
through all of it and updating it to modern function prototypes should be all
thatbs required, but itbs a pretty big surface areab&

  -- Chris


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