On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone have a current wget list for the Xorg-7.4 packages?
>>
>>
> Working through it because I need it now.
>> BLFS is so far behind and I'm using such a new cut of LFS that
>> I don't even want to try building until I get a decent list of
>> 7.4 packages.
>>
>> I can see at
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/tree/module-list.txt
>> a list of packages, but that list doesn't break it down by the
>> individual sections as we have it in the book.
>>
>> There's also http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.4, but that page
>> doesn't include all the packages.
>>
>> DJ/Dan, how do you normally go about fishing out all the required
>> packages for an Xorg release? I'll be happy to guinea pig an
>> installation, but not having experience creating the wget list
>> simply makes this task difficult for me.
>>
> I'm working through Xorg-7.4 update right now. So far, looks like our
> current grouping works well (different package lists and order of
> course). Only thing out the ordinary so far is in Mesa, the dri libs
> are installed into $XORG_PREFIX/lib/dri/ by default instead of
> $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/dri. We do have that issue 'fixed' in the book
> with the old build method. Can anyone check where they are in a recent
> distro to see if we really need to address it? FYI I used:
In fact, I checked in the fix to mesa that made it install to
$libdir/dri by default. That's really what you want since the DRI
drivers are not specific to Xorg (although, Xorg is the main
consumer). This is also where the xserver expects them by default.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] x74]# head -n 11 /media/lfs/sources/logs/227-mesa
> {
> llog -p
> time {
> ./configure ${XORG_CONFIG} --enable-xcb &&
Yep. There's also possibilities for:
--disable-glut: In case you want to use freeglut later
--with-motif (or maybe --enable-motif): If you want motif widgets in
libGLU; requires lesstif
> make &&
> make install &&
> ln -s -v ${XORG_PREFIX}/include/GL /usr/include
Do you know why this is needed?
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Dan
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