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.

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Dan
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