[stsf] Re: [stsf-commit] CVS Update: stsf (branch: )

[Roland Mainz]

Alexander Gelfenbain wrote:
> > Two questions:
> > 1. Will the xc/ parts of STSF follow anytime soon ?
> > 2. Is it possible to make the xc/ tree self-compiling, e.g. that one
> > checkout of the codebase is sufficient to get a useable development
> > tree
> > (if you do so consider to use the current XORG-RELEASE-1 branch, the
> > XORG-CURRENT currently misses a bunch of updates... ;-( ) ...
>
> 1) Yes, the XST part of STSF will be included in the monolithic tree
> (xorg)
>     I have already tagged the branch STSF_CURRENT of /cvs/xorg

Did you branch from XORG-CURRENT or XORG_RELEASE-1?

>         We are compiling the tree as I type this message and will commit it
>         as soon as the compile is successful.

Cool! :)

> 2) Right now the build process is as follows:
> 
>     - you need to check out two modules:
>                 xc from /cvs/xorg
>                 stsf from /cvs/stsf
> 
>         % cd stsf
>         % configure; make; make install

Umpf... is it possible that I can "install" into a non-default location
? I'd like to avoid setting up another VMware VM instance for working on
STSF...

I think it would be optimal if STSF would live under xc/extras/ in the
future to allow that all stuff can be build in one step (and
packaged+installed, too) ...

>         % cd ../xc
>         % make World
> 
>         You need to have Python, PyXML and freetype

You mean FreeType2, right ?

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Roland

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