help needed: Xserver on alpha (broken in X11R7)

[Drew Parsons]

The Xserver in X11R7 has stopped working for alpha architectures. The
problem is catalogued at [1] though there are not many details there
yet.  The server builds successfully but seems to get caught in some
loop at startup.

The problem started in X11R7, apparently Xorg 6.9 was still working.
That would suggest some defines from the old imake configuration files
got lost, or some value in the new configure.ac is misassigned for
alpha.

Is there anyone with access to an alpha box and the will to assist
sorting out the problem?  We'd greatly appreciate any help.  Does X11R7
actually worked on alpha for anyone?

Thanks,

Drew

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394669