On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:09:24 -0600 [email protected] wrote: > > Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-03-01/Chapter 24. X Window > System Environment states the following: > > Setting up the Xorg Build Environment > > First, you'll need to create a working directory: > > mkdir xc && > cd xc > > Is a separate xc working directory necessary? I thought lfs/blfs > convention is to build in a src directory. Linux From Scratch Version > 7.0 suggests the following:
I think it's just a fossilised historical curiosity. Back in the days before Xorg forked the code and split it all into separate packages we used to download the whole thing from XFree86 as several large (they seemed huge at the time) tarballs, and when you extracted them they created a directory called xc which had all the code in. It mentions it on this page: http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-museum/5.0-pre1/BLFS-BOOK-5.0-PRE1-HTML/x/xfree86.html "After unpacking the X430src-?.tgz files, change to the xc directory and run:" Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
