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From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1 imake problems
Date: 9 Oct 1994 10:25:51 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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Message-ID: <378gff$bi2@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
References: <3768ge$lvn@sundog.tiac.net>
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In article <3768ge$lvn@sundog.tiac.net>,
Gary D. Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net> wrote:
>   I'm trying to build XFree86 3.1 from source on my NetBSD 1.0
>Beta box, but I can't seem to get started. The Makefiles generated
>by imake are corrupted, with lots of @@'s and empty space in the
>makedepend section. Best of all, there is a page full of nulls at
>the end of the file. Is this a know problem? Thanks.
Either XFree-86-3.1 didn't fix this known problem in imake or
you haven't applied the patches properly. 
Anyway there are occurences of ftruncate in the imake src's.
These need type (off_t) added to the second parameter.
i.e. "0" is replaced with "(off_t) 0"
Cheerio

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