build Xorg with read-only source tree

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> What is the best or easiest way to build the modular Xorg with a read-only 
> source tree?
> 
> I will be sharing the source tree for different platforms (via NFS) and 
> want the built files to be in their own (per platform) directories.

That's a standard feature of the autotools - something like this should 
work:

	$ cvs -d <root> co xserver
	$ mkdir build
	$ cd build
	$ ../xserver/xorg/configure
	$ make

But I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of srcdir == builddir 
assumptions.

Kristian