On Friday 16 September 2005 16:44, Sigurd Nes wrote: > Is there a howto on compiling from source? > Something about xmkmf...? > > Regards > > Sigurd
Hi Sigurd, Compiling from source involves two things as I see it 1. - Gentoo folks should emerge xorg-x11 and let it run for a while. - Other people should probably unpack the xorg source and do some configuration and let "make" run for a minute or two (on a fast system...). This will take care of placing all the appropriate links and will create all needed Makefiles (I hope:P) 2. Place all xdriver files in <unpack dir>/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ivtv For Gentoo <unpack dir> is /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-<version>/work (<version> is 6.8.2-r3 for me at the moment) Then you can cd to the directory mentioned above and run xmkmf ../../../../../../../xc/ followed by make This results in some .o files which you should place in the appropriate directory where Xorg expects its modules On my Gentoo system this is: /usr/lib64/modules/drivers/ Hope this helps, Greetings, Rutger
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