On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> 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'.
The xf86site.def IS the sample host.def. You don't need the
host.def. It merely overrides the xf86site.def and provides
a way to edit a file that doesn't get clobbered by CVS. If 'make World'
doesn't just build without any editing at all, that is a bug.
>
> 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?
All drivers get built unless you uncomment and edit the XF86CardDrivers.
The point of doing that in a separate file (the host.def) is so you
don't prevent the sample (the xf86site.def) from patching properly.
Mark.
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