At 5:33 PM +0200 8/14/00, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Douglas Brebner wrote:
>
>>  P.S. Autodetecting this may be difficult if the display has a different
>>  endianess than the host (anyone know of such systems?)
>
>That case is handled elsewhere. Only the CPU's endianess
>matters. This is detected by autoconf which defines/undefs
>WORDS_BIGENDIAN.

Be that as it may, Doug's recommendation to define LSB_FIRST solved my problem.

It would appear that some changes to the Makefiles, configure files 
or to b3Dtypes.h, which uses LSB_FIRST in lieu of WORD_BIGENDIAN, are 
in order.

Thanks all, for your helpful remarks.  I now retract my statement 
about the difficulty of building from sourceforge, and may soon try 
my hand at building a FreeBSD port.
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