On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:51:37PM +0000, nettxzl wrote: > Hello, > > The instructions for building Xorg-7.2 (BLFS-6.3rc1) state that you > should create a working > directory xc but I'm confused about where you use this directory. > > I have the directory Xorg-7.2 and under this directory I have subdirectories > proto, util, app, lib and so on. Following the instructions, I downloaded the > packages for each of these sections in their respective subdirectories. > The *.wget files and the individual packages like libXau etc. I downloaded > directly in the Xorg-7.2 directory. > > Then again following the instructions, e.g., as in the example shell > script, you cd > into each section subdirectory, unpack the packages in the > subdirectory, cd into each > package directory, configure, compile and install. > > I don't see where the working directory xc comes into this or when I > use it. Or is the > directory I've called Xorg-7.2 equivalent to xc? > > Toni I think your Xorg-7.2 is equivalent to the book's xc. My lack of certainty is because I don't built xorg in that way, I just download the packages I want into my /sources directory, export the XORG variable(s), then build each package in sequence (and, apart from Mesa, I delete the build tree as soon as it has been installed).
The whole 'xc' business dates back to 7.0. That was the first modular version, and there was a corresponding monolithic version (6.9), so people built 7.0 under xc/ (which was the directory the monolithic versions unpacked into) to confirm that 6.9 and 7.0 were building the same things. 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
