Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-04-01 Thread William G. Lea
Pardon my intrusion, but is any of this documented anywhere in a concise way? I have had to upgrade to 4.3.0 on my RH8/Athelon to get a dual head radeon 9000 system to work, but 4.3.0 seems unstable. I'm getting random crashes. I've asked RH how to set the system up but they have refused to help

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends somewhat on how RH does X init. You can look through startx and xinit setup and see what's being changed. Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment in the xf86site.def file says,

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Matthieu Herrb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might make more people willing to test XFree86 releases on their machines. One experience like I had for the average tester who just wants to help out is likely to cause him to re- install his Linux distro and never run a 'make install' again

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kevin Brosius
Kendall Bennett wrote: Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends somewhat on how RH does X init. You can look through startx and xinit setup and see what's being changed. Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment in the xf86site.def file says, but that would appear not to be the case? Well, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc certainly wasn't updated during my last

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-30 Thread Kevin Brosius
Kendall Bennett wrote: Hi Guys, I have been mass compiling and installing multiple versions of XFree86 onto a machine for compatibility testing (Red Hat 7.3 based, so I can use the GDB hacked up debugger ;-). However whenever I do a 'make install' from a freshly built 4.2.0, 4.2.1 or

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-29 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:06:37PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Which does need to be uncommented to disable installing application default files. Are the application default files the ones I want to stop from being installed when I do a 'make install'? For startx, you want to prevent

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-28 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:24:09PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Is there an option to fix this in the host.def file? If so, perhaps this should be the default option when doing a make install?? Yes it is an option, though I do not recall which one. What I do recall is that if you look in