make problem with "vnc"

xyyz · January 28, 2004, 3:22am

i'm starting to think i post too much.

alright a new problem... i'm trying to do the "make World" for Xvnc, and i keep running into the following error:

# make World

Building Release 6.3 of the X Window System.

I hope you checked the configuration parameters in ./config/cf
to see if you need to pass BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS.

Tue Jan 27 00:25:44 PST 2004

cd ./config/imake && make -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="" clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
rm -f ccimake imake.o imake
rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak .o core errs , *~ .a tags TAGS make.log \#
rm -f -r Makefile.proto Makefile Makefile.dep bootstrap
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
make Makefile.boot
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc'
cd ./config/imake && make -w -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=""
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
making imake with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= in config/imake
cc -o ccimake -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 ccimake.c
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
make[2]: *** [ccimake] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake'
make[1]: *** [imake.proto] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/austin/vnc-3.3.7-unixsrc/Xvnc'
make: *** [World] Error 2

i'm sure it has somethign to do with the "language optional software package.... blah"

first of all, why is this using cc? i have gcc installed. maybe i'm totallyw rong here, but still. what gives?

oombera · January 28, 2004, 3:12pm

I don't know anything about this, but see if these help:

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2000-December/018862.html

http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/2000-06/0631.html

Quote from second link above:

Hello Steve,

well - your imake-files try to use cc. And you have gcc. You should look at ./XVNC/config/cf/site.def and uncomment the "hasgcc2"- section. Then a new xmkmf and make World - that's it. And you will have to use sun's make, NOT gnu-make.

Hope this helps. And I can send you a compiled XVNC - I compiled it on Solaris 8, should work on your system too.

By the way - if you want to use CDE, change in the vncserver-script the XStartup-section to:
$defaultXStartup 
   = ("#!/bin/sh\n\n". 
   "/usr/dt/bin/Xsession &\n");
That's it.

Bye, Andreas

> Hey all,
>
> I am having a problem compiling vnc on Solaris 7 on Intel. I have no problem
> on the compiling the viewer portion, just on the Xvnc server portion. I have
> gcc installed and Perl, but when I try a compile I get output as:
>
> # make World
>
> Building Release 6.3 of the X Window System.
>
> I hope you checked the configuration parameters in ./config/cf
> to see if you need to pass BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS.
>
> Tue Jun 27 14:56:11 EDT 2000
>
> cd ./config/imake && make -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="" clean
> rm -f ccimake imake.o imake
> rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak .o core errs , *~ .a tags TAGS make.log \#
> rm -f -r Makefile.proto Makefile Makefile.dep bootstrap
> make Makefile.boot
> cd ./config/imake && make -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=""
> making imake with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= in config/imake
> cc -o ccimake -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 ccimake.c
> /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ccimake'
> Current working directory /vnc/vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/config/imake
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `imake.proto'
> Current working directory /vnc/vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `World'
> #
>
> I also tried the command with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="DNOSTDADRS" and it produced
> the same error.
>
> Is there something I am missing? Or could someone send me a compiled copy?.
>
> Thanks
> Steve Palocz

xyyz · January 28, 2004, 10:20pm

good post thanks... but i managed to find a solaris 9 package, so i decided to go that route.

i am having another problem though.

when i try to run vncserver, i get the following error:

i googled the problem and it seems that i found the same question, but no helpful answers.

i did find the following:

as recommended by a website, but it didn't work either.

EDIT...

okay... i redid the path and things seems to run... but now here's a new problem.

i'm running CDE on my desktop, but when the vncviewer session starts, i get well, i don't know the exact term, but it's an X shell, that has nothing but a grey screen and is totally useless.

and yes, i did do what the link you posted said to do with my config file... but still nothing.

EDIT.

okay... it looks like i got it, but i don't like it. yeah i know i'm picky.

i searched further and came across this gem:

vncserver -query localhost

when i did that, the nice solaris 9 login prompt appeared. i set an alias to do the dirty work.

however, is there a way to fix this so that when i type "vncserver :1" it works instead of doing this, "-query localhost" business?