Re: Insights from successful, yet painful, install attempt.

> I never looked at its sources; it sounds quite broken.

I wouldn't call it broken. Having it build and run in spite of the endian 
issues is actually a good thing - it shows that programs that fail because 
of assumptions about endianness are inherently broken. And you don't need 
to look at the sources ;)

http://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html

"If you like living on the edge you can try building the emulator on a big 
endian machine, and you will get an emulation of a big endian 8086, a 
rather bizarre and somewhat useless beast. For everyone else, please run 
the emulator on a little endian machine."

>> Regarding hexchat, does it work with a remote X server?
>
> Yes. At least the server selection window, which crashes on the Amiga
> X server, does.
>
> I tried connecting to a server, but then hexchat blew up with "memory
> fault". Not sure what that means (out of memory?). 64MB might not cut
> it; I ordered a 128MB stick a while ago, but it might still take weeks
> to arrive.

How much swap do you have? And have you unlimit / ulimit before launching 
to see if it changes the results?

John