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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