On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:26:25PM +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:12 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Wait till you use modular X. > > Actually, modular X isn't all that hard to script, since all of the > packages are fairly new, and their autotools scripts are fairly cleanly > written. As a result, most of the dependencies can quite easily be > grepped out of the configure.in file. > > That's how I dealt with it when switching to 7.0 - spent a few hours on > a script to grab all the dependencies, build a graph of them, and then > write out all my regular build scripts. Took a bit of manual tweaking - > the configure.in files aren't *all* perfect, but probably saved a good > week of tedious work. > > Simon.
Thanks for putting it more clearly than I was able to - there is not much difficult about modular X, but there is an awful lot of it and plenty of scope for errors and typos. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
