xserver build failling AFTER it works ??

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Jul 14 17:44:46 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:22:04PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> That's untrue on 2 counts ... first, it was said (but I can't remember who
> anymore, and I didn't save it) that the build.sh did the same thing, so my
> suggested Makefile wasn't needed.

Please, really, just do it.  No-one's trying to tell you not to do
anything, as we've explicitly, painfully, repeatedly said.

In case the above paragraph was full of ambiguitity and uncertainty:

Do it.

Please.

> Secondly, I said in the initial mail (and
> only about 3 other times at least) that to do what I wanted, I needed answers
> dealing with some items of the autotools, things I didn't know and had been
> really miserable at figuring out.  I offered (and the offer's still good, I
> suppose) that if you wanted it done, someone would need to answer those
> questions for me ... they dealt with the file products of the autotools stuff.

And I quote from my response to your previous mail:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:14:51PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:51:55AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > I said I couldn't do it without getting a question or two answered about th
> > auto-tools part of the build, so both for that reason, and because I just
> > couldn't get myself to commit to your project without some approval, maybe I'll
> > just keep it private.  I'm going to have to wait until I see the answer to my
> > questions on these lists anyhow, and I figure that'll be a longish wait.  I'll
> > drop the topic, sorry.
> 
> Which questions in particular? If there've been any autotools questions
> I've missed, it's not because I'm ignoring them.  Somewhat culpable as I
> am, I try to make sure that I'm not neglecting it.

Oh well.

Cheers,
Daniel
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