Le 22/03/2020 à 22:59, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit :
> On 3/22/20 4:47 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
>> (Bcc to DJ in case he is not following everything on this list)
>>
>> Prompted by noticing yesterday that someone had a problem while
>> trying to build mozjs60 and happened to be building that in the xc
>> directory -
>>
>> In 'Introduction to Xorg-7' we say:
>>
>>   First, you'll need to create a working directory:
>>
>> mkdir xc &&
>> cd xc
>>
>> But we never actually go out of those directories anywhere in the
>> book.  I have not created an xc/ directory for building in _many_
>> years.
>>
>>  From memory, DJ introduced this directory in the days when Xorg was
>> transitioning from the old monolithic "everything in one tarball" to
>> the current "many separate packages" approach, perhaps releases 6.8
>> (old-style) and 6.9 (new-style).  The purpose was to ensure that
>> nothing which was compiled in the old approach had been omitted from
>> the new approach.
>>
>> I think the time to remove the xc directory is long overdue.  But as
>> always, I might be missing something.  comments welcome,
>> particularly from DJ.
> 
> I do have my sources in an xc directory, but that only has other directories
> within it.  For me it's a convenience, but it is certainly not needed in the
> book. I'm OK with removing it.
> 

Ok too. Since xc is only mentioned in the Introduction, and not in the
packages pages, an automated builder such as jhalfs does not use it.

Pierre
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