dead code in build.sh?

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:40:19 -0600, Matt Dew wrote:

> It can also be used to just build certain things like 'I just want
> these video drivers'.
> 
That can be achieved today by.. just building the video drivers you
want.

> >
> >> 3) auto generated nightly tarballs for all the modules
> >
> > Binary tarballs? Source tarballs? If the former, they wouldn't be useful
> > for most people, the latter isn't significantly different from git clone
> > && ./autogen.sh
> 
> Why wouldn't the binary tarballs be useful?

Because they will work on the machine of whoever built them, and not on
yours.  Unless you include everything down to libc and kernel in your
tarball, but...

> What's the option for folks who just wanna grab something and try out
> say a recent build of X without having to spend an hour compiling it
> themselves?
> 
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa is an option
(disclaimer: I don't use it, I don't know if it eats
kittens/children/whatever; but it should have recent X bits AFAIK).

Cheers,
Julien