building modular xorg

[François-Denis Gonthier]

"Manoa Nosea" <monohouse at gmail.com> writes:

> according to:
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/git
>
> I more or less managed to built it, however if there is an updated
> location for any of these manuals I would like to know if there are
> any others.
>
> the real problem however, is that none of them specify how to prevent
> each package from accessing the system's libraries, so that the newly
> built xorg only sees the dependencies that I build, not the ones that
> are present in the system.
> _______________________________________________
> xorg mailing list
> xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

I manage that just fine by using configure's prefix option and
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the correct directory for the pkg-config of the
installed library.

If you have a more specific problem please say it.  I'm no expert but
I could help.