Cross compiling the X server?

Kendall Bennett KendallB at scitechsoft.com
Mon Nov 29 11:44:14 PST 2004


Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald at s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> > I do have one question. Is it possible to build the X server and have the 
> > binary object files end up in a different directory like it is with most 
> > if the GNU tools? I presently build my X trees for x86 on my machine and 
> > I would like to be able to cross compile from the same tree but have the 
> > binaries be in a different directory
> 
> Not directly. But you could do the following
> 
> mkdir build-dir
> cd build-dir
> lndir /path/to/xc 

Cool, that works. Strangely the build I made does not run on my PPC box 
for some reason, so something is jacked with my cross compiler setup. But 
at least it builds ;-)

Regards,

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