Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Okay..got to account for that. Thanks for the warning. Actually, I
might rebuild it quick. Anything in apps depend on the driver location
that you know of?
-- DJ Lucas
>> [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?
>
I'm not sure anymore. IIRC, like the dri module location, it was to
satisfy the layout of the monolith xorg tree. I also seem to remember
that a few things puked, if it wasn't in place, but I can't for the life
of me remember what or if it is still relevant.
-- DJ Lucas
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