Wrapping up 7.4 (finally)

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Jun 12 15:09:02 PDT 2008


On Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:32 am Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> >> On the development side, it would be useful to have more of an idea of
> >> what projects are going on, what is planned and where new developers
> >> can join in. I would like to help (if I can), but only have limited
> >> knowledge/experience of building X, and don't know where to start. I
> >> know that Kristian Hogsberg (sorry if I got the spelling wrong) has a
> >> good entry on building a minimal X server, but can't remember where it
> >> is.
> >
> > Høgsberg, and you're probably thinking of this:
> > http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2008/02/building-and-installing-drmdrix-sta
> >ck.html
>
> That information was essentially duplicated into the Xorg wiki by
> Jesse Barnes here:
>
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/git
>
> That page seems to contain the most accurate and update instructions
> for building, at least when using the master versions of everything.
> It would be nice if these instructions were more prominent.

There's one notable piece missing at this point:  gallium build instructions.  
Since you probably know how to build gallium in your sleep, maybe you could 
fill in that section, Dan?

Thanks,
Jesse



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