Simon Geard wrote: >On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 06:32 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > >>As for who's build script to use, it would certainly be nicer if there >>was a single script that received all the maintenance and could be the >>entry point for anyone to build xorg by source. In fact, there is one >>(quite a few, actually), but it doesn't get enough love. But the fact >>so many people showed their build scripts highlights how trivial it >>really is. The difficult part is figuring out what order to build in. >>It would be nice, though, if someone stepped up and maintained one >>good script. It could be you or me, it's not rocket science. >> >> >> > >Agreed... for anyone comfortable with an LFS build, I'd expect scripting >an XOrg build to be simple enough. A bit of an investment in time - >maybe half a day to do well - but not especially difficult. > >I no longer have the script in question, but my first attempt at an XOrg >7.0 build worked out the ordering by grepping for pkg-config commands in >the autoconf scripts... some manual corrections were needed, but the >modular packages are cleanly enough written to handle the great majority >of cases. > >Simon. > > I was lazy I just grabbed the lists of names in order from the BLFS site reduced them to basenames with sed and did the following:
for modname in `cat modules-list`;do cd $modname*;<whatever I needed to cut and paste from BLFS>;cd ..;done or something like that and went very well for the most part the hard has already been done for me and I thank the team and all the people willing to post a litte effort out there for that. The real problem here is indeed the ordering of the build and the only thing that would be nice from Xorg would be a listing of the dependancies in order (I sure this is posting is entirely redundant/etc but hey I missed out on all the early "me too" usenet drama) You people are tough I don't know how or why you keep at its been two weeks watching compiles for me and Ive been feeling foolish. In fact I finally did give in and just grab firefox prebuilt I can't do it all. John -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
