xorg on amd64

Chuck Robey chuckr at telenix.org
Thu Jul 31 16:19:07 PDT 2008


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Steven J Newbury wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 19:06 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
>> Just wondering if there was an interest group for getting Xorg working
>> completely on the amd64 (as a 64 bit kernel &libs) platform?  If so, do those
>> folks have a separate list?  I'd love to find that, and read all the articles.
>> I tried to get it building, immediately, there are some include dependency
>> problems, probably more, and I'm curious if much work's been done on this?
>>
>> Just suddenly interested because I got a amd64 Gentoo box going, and wanted to
>> get Xorg building on it.  I could do without it, but it's make a jim-dandy test box.
> It all works fine.  How exactly are you trying to build it?  Is there
> something wrong with your Gentoo profile?
> 
> 

Possible.  Thanks for confirming that, I guess I will spend some time trying to
figure out what's broke.  I'm more used to the BSD environment where the base
install comes with the OS.  In linux, it's all in those separate packages.  I
may well either have the wrong set, or have one set that's out of date, I guess.
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