BuildingX script from the Wiki

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:24:59PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> 
> Guess I was looking for a general one-shot build script... give it a
> work dir, get from repos, configure and build, end up with some
> sort of installable binaries/tarballs or a runnable hierarchy already
> installed in a PREFIX. The old build scripts I wrote for XFree86 don't
> exactly work with xorg :-) Getting back into X and the modular build
> has made more up front work as I'm totally in the dark about build
> order and dependencies. But as usual, once I iterate and make/find
> a build script things will be cool.

There's work in progress [1]. A new version of x-jhbuild is coming soon,
with lots of improvements. I'm currently writing the announcment where I
will try to convince how much fun auditing and testing will be, by means
of writing small overriding modulesets.
There are some patches to jhbuild which I consider crucial at [2].

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-May/008111.html
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618974

-- 
Dirk