Broken make install [was Debugging X.org drivers?]

[Kendall Bennett]

Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I don't think there is an easy way. If you make them immutable the install 
> might fail outright.

True, if I was doing a full install from scratch. But I am always doing 
an install over the top of my working installation for testing purposes 
(I actually have every version of X between XFree86 4.0.2 and X.org 6.8.1 
installed and I can switch between them all for testing ;-).

> The thing is that, IMO, RedHat should not be messing with these
> files in the first place. 
> 
> For example, Xsession (used by xdm) checks for existance of
> /etc/xprofile and source it then - whatever modifications RedHat
> felt it needed to make should be done there. 

That is probably true, but I can't fix that ;-(.

> As for /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc - it looks like I have been
> wrong, it is not overwritten, in fact I can't find this file on my
> other computer. 

The file is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. That file was replaced and putting it 
back to the original setting did fix this problem.

The only remaining issues is that when I start the FC2 default X.org 
server via startx I get a black background that KDE starts over, while 
with my new install I get the cross hatch background that KDE starts 
over. What file contols the root server background in the init scripts?

But the real issue is that I think the make install process is actually 
broken in 6.8.1, unless I am missing something. Some more research showed 
me that I have the following in my host.def file:

/*
 * Do not install any of the sample config files when doing 'make 
install'.
 */
#define InstallXinitConfig	NO
#define InstallXdmConfig	NO
#define InstallFSConfig		NO
#define InstallAppDefFiles	NO

I recall now that is what I used in the past with XFree86 to stop it from 
destroying my existing setup, but in this case it still blows away the 
xinitrc file when it should not (InstallXinitConfig is supposed to 
control this). Clearly the InstallXdmConfig option is working because my 
xdm Xsession files were left unchanged and it works as it did before.

Does anyone know where in the makefiles the xinitrc file is copied from? 
I would like to fix it so that the InstallXinitConfig option works again.

Regards,

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