On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hi Again, > > > > I think that <http://www.xfree86.org/current/BUILD.html> is a > > > reasonable introduction to building XFree86, but suggestions for > > > improving that document are most welcome. > > Going through the current BUILD.html file again I see that things are a > lot clearer now. However one thing that needs to be explained is the > section that says 'When the build is finished, you should check the > World.log file to see if there were any problems'. Fair enough. Well the > first time a user attemps to do exactly that, they will bring it up in > their favorite editor and immediately say to themselves 'How the hell do > I know if there is an error!'. The next obvious idea is to grep for > 'error', but that also is not good because there are lots of files with > 'error' in the filename!
actually "Error" is what I look for (depends on the compiler and related utilities). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
