Bootstrapping X.Org (was Call Monday 24 Jan 2005)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:04:41PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Daniel Stone writes:
>  > My understanding of the *BSD ports was that you guys had Makefiles
>  > which controlled the building of each specific module, so surely you
>  > could use those, no?  I was suggesting jhbuild as a convenience for
>  > end users.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense for us to distribute such Makefiles for 
> certain build situations also? 
> To me it looks like there whould be a lot of other groups who 
> have the same concern (no Python available) besides the BSDs and
> would thus benefit from such Makefiles.

Sure, but my understanding of most of these operating systems is that
the packagers make ports and other general packages.  I can see the
utility of a top-level Makefile and am not disputing it, but I just
don't think it will be quite that widely-used.
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