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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Xfree86-2.0+FreeBSD: PEX stuff not working?
In-Reply-To: viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu's message of 1 Nov 1993 11:55:57 GMT
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 13:20:33 GMT

>>>>> In article <2b2tgd$4ni@Tut.MsState.Edu>, viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah) writes:
Viren> I just installed XFree86-2.0 (from freebsd.cdrom.com)..everything went
Viren> just fine. But when i tried to run 

Viren> /usr/X386/bin/beach_ball
Viren> and
Viren> /usr/X386/bin/auto_box

Viren> they didn't work...came up with a bunch of errors :(
Viren> Are these supposed to work? or do i specifically need to build
Viren> pex extensions?

The server binaries don't include PEX because performance isn't
generally thought to be high enough to be useful.

Use the linkkit to generate a PEX server.  See the
X386/lib/Server/README for details and uncomment 
'#define BuildPexExt YES' in site.def.  Rich