On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:54, spundun wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:54, spundun wrote: > I dont understand. I think kdrive is not related to xfree86.org .
You're a little misled here. kdrive started within xfree86. Take a look
in xfree86 source code sometime, xc/program/Xserver/hw/kdrive. After
Keith Packard left xfree86, kdrive began being maintained in other
places. Now it's at freedesktop.org
> You know that mine (and everybody and their dog's) sudden interest in
> xserver is due to the new developement regarding compositing manager
> extension which enables ppl to use effects similar (but not limited) to
> OS-X, right?
Yes, one of the developers posted to slashdot a couple of days ago.
> >The other problem I've seen is that we should install all of the
> >libraries xserver requires to /usr/X11R6/, which would overwrite xfree's
> >files.
> >
> I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] can work with xlib etc components from XFree
> project. Ask on their irc #xwin to confirm.
Apparently you didn't notice when you joined #xwin a couple of days ago
that I was in there.
No. The xfree86 libraries aren't autotooled (they use horrible imake),
cannot be built independently, and do not install *.pc files needed for
pkg-config.
> > (When compiling xserver/xlibs by hand, one typically installs to
> >/usr/local/.) So xserver/kdrive will need to change to an exclusive
> >build, instead of something that can be installed alongside xfree.
> >
> >
> I dont understand the exact nature of the problem, but it seems trivial!
> may be I am missing something,
The issue is that it should be installed to /usr/X11R6, according to
policy. Therefore, freedesktop.org's xlibs/xserver and xfree86 currently
cannot be installed at the same time.
> >I have ebuilds for most of the required things already (all of them as
> >of last time I build xserver, two weeks ago), available on
> >dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/. Distfiles are available in the same
> >place.
> >
> >
> Are they cvs snapshots? If yes, then what date? kdrive, or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, they are CVS snapshots. Look at the ebuild names to get the date,
naming thus far has been ${package}-0.1_pre${date}.ebuild. Ebuilds for
new xlibs that aren't there yet are trivial. Simply check out the CVS
from xlibs.freedesktop.org, make a tarball from the top level (using the
naming scheme of the distfiles in my overlay), of X11, xtrans, etc, copy
that tarball to distfiles, copy one of the other needed ebuilds over to
a new one with the proper date and try it out. Some tweaking may be
necessary. Do the same with xserver CVS.
I'm going to be reworking those ebuilds over the next week or two, so be
aware that they may be changing somewhat drastically.
They are from freedesktop.org.
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