Proper way to operate a git build and a regular package-manager installed X at the same time

[Joel Feiner]

I tried that a few months ago and I had a whole bunch of build problems. 
  I may give it another shot, or I may just wait for the 7.4 release to 
come out.  However, I would eventually like to become a contributor to 
X.org, so it'd be worth having a pure git tree installed.

James C. Georgas wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 09:22 -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
>> I have (finally!) managed to get a git-based xorg tree built on my
>> Gentoo test install.  I have it live in /usr/local/xorg.  So far, things
>> seem to work mostly correctly, but some non-git programs seem to be
>> failing because -- I believe -- they aren't using the right libraries.
>> Now, I've set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/xorg/lib and that works for
>> some things.  But I seem to be having problems getting DRI to work
>> again, which is strange because it did work at one time with this git
>> build and now it's not.
>>
> 
> There is also an xorg overlay for gentoo, which will properly build and
> install all the bleeding edge stuff you like, with proper dependencies.
> All you have to do is unmask and keyword the packages. Been running it
> as my normal X/DRI for over a year now.
> 
> James
> 
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