On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Exactly. There's nothing magical about xc. It's just more to simulate the monolithic days where you have all the source under an xc directory. I build it like Ken does where each tarball is unpacked just like any other. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
