Building Xorg 7.1 from tarballs

[Alex Deucher]

On 12/4/06, EJBoshinski <mistrz.linux at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just thought that I would update all of you on this.  I was able to complete
> a build of the entire Xorg 7.1 "everything" tarball successfully.  From
> everyone's input, I was able to adapt the installation procedure so that it
> would successfully install repetitively on  several cleans installs.  I
> constructed some very basic scripts, corrected the "suggested" install
> instructions from the Modular Developers Page & !! it works!!  8-D  And I
> was able to do it in a single pass of progressively building the underlying
> tools & libs.
>
> Thanks again for your insight and suggestions.
>
> PS - the online docs should 'really' be updated.....
>

It's a wiki;  feel free to update it yourself :)

Alex

> -ejb
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: R.L. Horn <lists at eastcheap.org>
> To: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 2:19:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Building Xorg 7.1 from tarballs
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> > In the Linuxfromscratch project we bootstrap Xorg.
>
> > The jist of it is that after you build the libraries but before you
> > build the server, you should build Mesa if you want to do it all in
> > one pass.
>
> Yeah, that sounds about right.  You just need to remember to move the
> makedepend build up to some point before your Mesa build (yes, I know I
> said imake earlier, but then I remembered that makedepend is packaged
> separately).  As scripted, the utils (xorg-cf-files, imake, makedepend,
> gccmakedep, and lndir) are dead last in the build order.
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