Hi, First and foremost: Many thanks and a great debt of gratitude for the huge effort and outstanding quality of this BLFS release (Ch. 24 "Introduction to Xorg-7.7-1"). I suspect DJ has (again) been instrumental here.
------ The following couple of thoughts are mostly directed to existing 7.6 and future 7.7 BLFS users. 1. While stable on 7.6, early in the game I subscribed to the Xorg Archives list, <lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/> Among many more or less interesting posts, you receive "ANNOUNCE" announcements issued by various Xorg developers there. As an example: << [ANNOUNCE] xcb-util 0.3.9 Arnaud Fontaine ... Wed May 30 20:57:02 PDT 2012 ... Download ======== http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-0.3.9.tar.bz2 ... sha256: c611259c0ab ... e8b3636315c18c4 ... >> For some reason (mostly ADD I suppose), I've made a habit to follow each and every [ANNOUNCE] and act on it. Whatever they threw at me, I downloaded, built and installed (successfully I might add; the proper dependencies were those provided by the 7.6 related software - makes sense). So, all of a sudden, in checking with the book as well, I realized this way one can end up perched on the 7.7 "release", without much fuss (and/or muss) - or as the Germans say, sans vraiment se fatiguer. As an aside, I even noticed that with at least two packages I (accidentally) exceeded the book level: xkeyboard-config-2.6 xcb-util-0.3.9 2. However, I admit this method is not without its risks. One has to be in really perfect shape so as not to suffer a heart attack on being hit with a post like this: << ANN: xterm patch #280 Thomas Dickey ... Sun Jun 24 15:47:43 PDT 2012 ... Patch #280 - 2012/06/24 ... >>, when smugly sitting at 279. "xterm" turns out to be at xterm-280.tgz as of 6/24/12 10:41:00 PM now, and already with a lot of fixes (as detailed in the above patch) at that! 3. Not a thought, just being picayunishly nit-picky: On the "libdrm-2.4.33" procedure (configure), "--enable-nouveau-experimental-api; &&", the semi-colon appears somehow extraneous to me. Thanks, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
