Improving Xorg

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Jul 9 23:24:46 PDT 2006


Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:48:33PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
>>I have a single checkout of cvs/git sources and use lndir to make links to
>>it from directories in which I build 32-bit & 64-bit on both SPARC & x86/x64
>>for Solaris, and even gcc vs. Sun compilers.
> 
> 
> autotools supports srcdir != builddir, so you can do something like
> this:
> mkdir obj-amd64
> cd obj-amd64
> ../configure --prefix=/usr etc

But I was doing this with checkouts directly from CVS, and didn't think our
autogen.sh or build.sh scripts handled this.   lndir let me use build.sh as is.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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