Installing Xorg

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:02:40 -0800 Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> babbled:

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> Felix Kühling wrote:
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> > <rant>
> > Even though i have not been whining, I find the modular build process
> > rather painful. You may have noticed that the number of active
> > developers is rather small too. FWIW, whenever I tried the modular build
> > it was broken and needed a fix somewhere. What I'm waiting for is for
> > the modular Xorg to hit major distributions so that people can build
> > individual modules without building everything else. Until that time
> > modular Xorg is just a PITA for anyone willing to help with Xorg
> > development with limited time at their hands.
> > </rant>
> 
> I second that.  I'd also like to add that, even with distcc and three
> systems, the modular build takes at least an order of magnitude longer
> to complete than the monolith.

thanks to autofoo. :) libtool linking is awfully slow - and running configure N times doesnt help a lot. but a modular server is better for peolpe to help with - less code to  get/walk/read/screw with/build when all you want to do is fix something in libpixman for example to speed up xrender :)

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