Gerard Beekmans wrote:
Chris Staub wrote:
Probably missed something in the Xorg "Libraries" section. If you only
installed the 17 libraries in the book, that's not enough. You need to
install *all* the libs - the 17 listed are just the ones that need to
be built in a specific order.
Okay, my bad then. I read it as meaning those are the 17 required
libraries. I didn't even look to see if there were more libraries.
I'll install the rest and try again.
Thanks Chris.
Yes, there is currently a bug open #1833 that I haven't found a nice
text for yet. The splitting of Xorg has made it one of the more
difficult packages to describe from an instructional standpoint, and
mabye the best approach hasn't been discovered yet. For now, I need to
reword the surrounding and introduction texts because you are not the
first person to (mis?)interpret the 17 libs blub as being all that is
_needed_ for a functional Xorg. We pretty much expect everything is
installed (no different than the monolithic build of 6.9).
Now, Xorg can be cut back an awful lot, but the number of options (If
you did this and then this, but didn't do those then do that. Else if
you did...) makes it kind of difficult to do for the book. Thomas Pegg
created the first BLFS set of instructions for Xorg, which are much more
descriptive, but it also added upwards of 280 pages to the book. As
they are now, it's down to 4 pages (xorg7, mesa, libdrm, and xterm) to
return the expected funtionality of the monolithic build.
http://www.tpegg.org/20051203/ Thomas' book will have to serve as the
definative resource for dependencies until the wiki is populated (at
least for a BLFS type format).
-- DJ Lucas
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