Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:08 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> BTW, I built in /opt/xorg. I like to do that so I can build another >> version of xorg without changing the current programs that would be the >> case if installing in /usr. > > I think you're very brave to do that. I think reinstalling a newer > version of xorg would break pango and cairo and everything that depends > on them (ie, pretty much anything that uses xorg). Command line > programs would work but trying to get any GUI things working again > would be a nightmare. You'd have a mass of things in /usr that were > compiled against the old xorg. Reinstalling the apps may work, but they > may try to link against the old broken stuff. If you want to reinstall > xorg it's easier to just redo the whole system than to try and deal > with the brokeness.
What you do is have a symlink of /opt/xorg -> xorg-7.6-2, build with a different prefix and when ready to test, change the symlink. Works great for kde, qt, gnome, fop, and and ant also. For example: /opt/qt -> qt-3.3.8 /opt/qt-3.3.5 /opt/qt-3.3.8 /opt/qt-3.3.8-nomysql /opt/qt-4.3.4 /opt/qt-4.5.0 /opt/qt-4.5.2 /opt/qt-4.7.0 /opt/qtbin -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
