Xsun fails compile on SunOS4.1.1
Guy Harris
auspex!guy at uunet.uu.net
Thu Jan 17 06:42:18 AEST 1991
>I just tried to build Xsun on a SparcStation 2 running SunOS4.1.1. With
>the new keyboards, Sun has changed the value of the constant HOLE from
>0xA2 to 0x302,
No, with the new SunOS 4.1[.x] *operating system*, Sun has changed the
value of the constant. (Yes, I know this for a fact - I'm the guy who
changed the value....)
>while the element kiockey.type remains unsigned char. An
>assignment or comparison of these twho is therefore invalid.
Yup.
>Has anyone fixed this problem yet? I would much rather not have to hack
>the sunKbd.c routine myself.
The good news is that the whole reason that grot is being done is that the
pre-4.1 driver lied, and claimed that a Type 4 keyboard was actually a
Type 3 keyboard. The new driver doesn't do so, so the fix should simply
be to ensure that TYPE4KEYBOARDOVERRIDE isn't defined when compiling with
the new 4.1[.x] driver, thus removing that code entirely.
You can try something such as replacing the code that defines
TYPE4KEYBOARDOVERRIDE with
/*
* The Sun 386i has system include files that preclude this pre SunOS 4.1
* test for the presence of a type 4 keyboard however it really doesn't
* matter since no 386i has ever been shipped with a type 3 keyboard.
* In addition, the same is true of the 4.1 driver, but it really
* doesn't matter there, either, because the 4.1 driver tells you whether
* you have a Type 3 or a Type 4.
*/
#if !defined(i386) && HOLE != 0x302
#define TYPE4KEYBOARDOVERRIDE
#endif
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