Armin K. wrote: > On 07/10/2012 06:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> Hi there. There was some talk about splitting Xorg Packages into >>> seperate ones. I went with Xorg Applications first. I did not make >>> instructions for every package, since there are too many of them, and >>> nearly all of them are required at runtime of Xorg Server, so it's >>> dependency list would become big. Anyways, I took the way of generating >>> the wget and md5sum lists manualy instead of putting them to server. >>> These lists are generated using xml entities of each package. >>> >>> You can see how that looks here: >>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/x7app.html >>> >>> Also, there is a patch for that at >>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg.patch.gz if desired. >>> >>> I won't commit anything if someone does not like that way. >>> >>> Drivers splitup is next on my TODO list. >> >> It looks OK to me, but I think we need to add in a loop for the build >> process with the wget list as input. This would be similar to the >> script at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/xorg7.html >> >> for package in app.wget >> do >> packagedir=$(echo $package | sed 's/.tar.bz2//') >> [ "x$(echo $packagedir | cut -c1 )" != "x#" ] || continue >> tar -xf $package >> pushd $packagedir >> ./configure $XORG_CONFIG >> make >> make install >> popd >> rm -rf $packagedir >> done 2>&1 | tee -a ../xorg-app-compile.log #log the entire loop >> >> -- Bruce >> > > I don't have anything against that, but do note that such instructions > would require configure and make to be ran as root user.
Hmm. We don't generally do it, but we could use 'sudo make install'. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
