Hi Guys, One area that appears to be severely lacking for the 'new' developer is guidance on how to set up the host.def file properly so that you can build XFree86 successfully on your system. The default xf86site.def is a good start, but it doesn't really explain things since everything is essentially commented out. You don't really know what stuff you *should* define to get a standard build on different systems.
Perhaps a good start would be to have a directory with sample host.def files in it, especially a good 'default' file that can be used to build a complete XFree86 system on Linux and FreeBSD for instance. That is where a lot of developers could really use a default they can just copy to host.def and then do a 'make World'. Which brings me to my question. Do I need to uncomment the XF86CardDrivers section in the host.def file in order to build the driver modules? The comments would seem to indicate you need to do this, but IMHO that would be kind of silly (too error prone). I *think* in reality if you do not define this that the default set of all drivers will be built, and you can use this define to change which drivers actually get built. Is that correct? Thanks! --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
